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The standard 90-day coordinated disclosure timeline is collapsing as AI-driven automation compresses exploit generation from released patches down to mere hours.
The timeline charts a progression from early theoretical warnings about economic externalities to the automated weaponisation of software patches. Offense benefits from cheap verification loops, accelerating faster than defense can adapt. Anthropic's testing demonstrated a capability leap from Opus 4.8 to Mythos Preview, turning Firefox and Windows patches into working privilege-escalation exploits in under an hour. Because vast backlogs of older vulnerabilities remain unpatched across global infrastructure, defenders now face simultaneous pressure from autonomous exploit generation and relentless automated scanning against legacy systems.
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