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The article focuses on how frontier AI models are accelerating the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source code and detailing the operational workflow of the Athena coalition to triage and remediate these findings at scale. This represents a significant shift in vulnerability management where AI-driven detection outpaces traditional human response times, necessitating new collaborative frameworks for ecosystem defense.
Athena spotlight: Black Duck on the importance of flagging zero-days at scale

AI can find zero-days faster than teams can fix them. See how Black Duck and Athena work together to turn findings into actionable protection.
Black Duck joined the Athena coalition in July. We sat down with their team to talk about what changes when AI can find vulnerabilities faster than anyone can fix them. Frontier AI models are demonstrating that they are highly capable of finding and…
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