Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking

Reported by Wired (Will Knight, Lily Hay Newman)

Summary by Cyber Security News6 Nov 2026, 19:43 CET

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An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and GLM to be not far behind OpenAI’s most advanced cyber model, which isn’t public.

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