{"id":213898,"date":"2026-05-14T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/microsoft-beats-anthropic-and-openai-on-key-cybersecurity-te\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:35:08","slug":"microsoft-beats-anthropic-and-openai-on-key-cybersecurity-te","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/microsoft-beats-anthropic-and-openai-on-key-cybersecurity-te\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Beats Anthropic and OpenAI on Key Cybersecurity Te\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Beats Anthropic and OpenAI on Key Cybersecurity Te\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pymnts.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/microsoft-beats-anthropic-and-openai-on-key-cybersecurity-test\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-14 12:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.pymnts.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. A new Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI) system has reportedly outperformed Anthropic in a cybersecurity test.<\/p>\n

The system, dubbed \u201cMDASH,\u201d was introduced this week along with the revelation of 16 new vulnerabilities it uncovered in various versions of Windows, tech news website GeekWire reported Wednesday (May 13).
\nAccording to the report, MDASH was able to surpass Anthropic\u2019s high-profile Mythos model on a \u201cleading cybersecurity benchmark,\u201d employing 100-plus specialized artificial intelligence (AI) agents working in tandem across multiple models to uncover real-world software vulnerabilities.
\nThat metric is called the CyberGym benchmark, created by UC Berkeley researchers to determine how well AI systems can replicate real-world vulnerabilities across 1,507 tasks pulled from 188 open-source software projects. MDASH scored 88.45% on the test, with Mythos at 83.1% and OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.5 at 81.8%, the report said.
\nMDASH (\u201cmulti-model agentic scanning harness\u201d) works by assigning different agents to do different jobs, the report added. Some scan code for potential vulnerabilities, while another group debates whether each discovery is real and exploitable. A final group puts together proof-of-concept attacks to confirm the bugs are real.
\nMythos, on the other hand, is a single AI model operating inside an agent framework, GeekWire said. The startup has limited its release to a small group of companies\u2014Microsoft included\u2014known as \u201cProject Glasswing.\u201dAdvertisement: Scroll to Continue <\/p>\n

In the wake of Mythos\u2019 release, OpenAI has introduced Daybreak, its own agentic security offering that works with the company\u2019s Codex coding tool.
\n\u201cAI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we\u2019d like to start working with as many companies as possible now to help them continuously secure themselves,\u201d OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote on social media platform X earlier this week.
\nThis week also saw reports that French AI startup Mistral was working with banks in Europe\u2014which lack access to Mythos\u2014on its own cybersecurity offering.
\nIn related news, PYMNTS wrote earlier this week about \u201cthe industrialization of hacking\u201d after researchers at Google reported they had uncovered what they believe is the first observed case of an AI-created zero-day exploit tied to a planned mass exploitation campaign.
\nThe chief takeaway for businesses is that the \u201ctool kit of hacking tasks\u201d for cyberscammers, including reconnaissance, exploit adaptation, vulnerability discovery and social engineering, no longer need the same level of human expertise.
\n\u201cOn top of that, they are all becoming increasingly automatable,\u201d PYMNTS added. \u201cThis first-principles shift matters because cybersecurity is ultimately an economic system. And economic systems change rapidly when the cost of production collapses.\u201d<\/p>\n

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