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DEF CON 33 Preview - AIXCC - Andrew Carney

Brief

DARPA and ARPAH's AI Cyber Challenge (AICC) is a two-year program that prizes automated cyber-reasoning systems capable of finding and patching vulnerabilities; final winners were announced at DEF CON (published 2025-07-23) with $4M/$3M/$1.5M awards. Semi-final results showed real-world automated patching, and teams will open-source tools and release competition data and visualizations to accelerate sector adoption.

Source evidence

DEF CON 33 Preview - AIXCC - Andrew Carney

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQDOIFZgBs4