Points to measurable growth in High and Critical CVEs coinciding with AI cyber capability releases, relevant to security planning.
Key takeaways · AI-distilled
Epoch's Cyber Vulnerabilities explorer tracks CVE reports since 2022, filterable to 21 notable vendors and projects and overlaid with AI milestones, and shows a sharp rise in High and Critical CVEs around Mythos Preview's late-March release to Project Glasswing partners.
Since SpaceXAI's Colossus 1 launched in August 2024, the record for compute at a single AI data center has doubled every seven months, with New Carlisle, Fairwater Atlanta and Meta Prometheus each holding the top spot at times.
AI-related data centers, compute hardware and networking were about 0.8% of US GDP in Q1 2026, lifting computing infrastructure to about 1.5% of GDP from a 2015-2022 average near 0.7%; Epoch calls it the leading driver of US private investment growth.
FrontierMath Tiers 1-4 v2 followed an audit that fixed small but critical errors in 42% of the original problems; rankings stayed similar but scores rose, with Claude Fable 5 on top at 87% on Tiers 1-3 and 88% on Tier 4.
A Gradient Update compiling public evidence on Mythos finds it unclear whether the model is ahead of trend at discovering vulnerabilities, but says it represents a big jump in exploiting them.
