AI Bug Bounty in 2026: 76% More Reports, Programs Shutting Down
HackerOne paused payouts, Curl quit its bounty, Linux's security list is unmanageable. The AI vulnerability flood and the zero-days buried in the noise.
HackerOne paused payouts, Curl quit its bounty, Linux's security list is unmanageable. The AI vulnerability flood and the zero-days buried in the noise.
DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $1.74/M input tokens — 7x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7. Real benchmarks, costs, and safety gaps.
AI agent guardrails from 4 real production wipes — PocketOS, Replit, Amazon. Scoped tokens, destructive-action gates, isolated backups, plan-first mode.
Cursor Composer 2 ships at $0.50/M input — roughly 1/10 of Opus 4.6 — and beats Opus on Terminal-Bench. Then a developer found Kimi K2.5 in the model ID.