Anthropic’s Cyber Research Suggests AI Is Reducing the Time Between a Patch and an Exploit

On May 22, June 3, and June 8, 2026 , Anthropic published three cyber research posts that looked like different stories. One was about exploit benchmarks. One mapped malicious AI use to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which is a common way security teams describe attacker behavior. One tested how fast models could turn published patches into working exploits. Read together, they point to a simpler…