The cybersecurity world has been abuzz about AI-assisted tools finding vulnerabilities faster than ever. Even non-tech outlets have covered topics like Anthropic’s Mythos bot being deemed a proverbial superweapon. We discussed one of many alerts on how the industry-standard 90-day vulnerability disclosure window is going the way of the dodo, too. Words are pretty, but programmers and politicians don’t use poetry, so numbers are the proper tool for this topic. The Zero-Day Clock (ZDC) uses them to clearly display the consequences of lax security throughout the ages. The website was created by Sergej Epp from Sysdig, and the effort counts most every major tech and cybersecurity company as signatories. The lowdown is quite simple: the proverbial AI singularity made it so the mean time between a vulnerability being discovered and it being exploited has dropped from nearly a year in 2021 to just over a day in 2026 (and counting).

Full report : AI shrinks zero-day exploit time from a year to a single day, heading toward one minute — Zero-Day Clock warns security window has collapsed.