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Each issue of our AI Testing Newsletter, condensed into a whitepaper: what AI vulnerability discovery is doing to product security, with the numbers and incidents that prove it. New issues publish regularly.

Issue 1 · AI vuln discovery in medtech

Myth about Mythos

The legacy triage model (a CVE drops, spend two days deciding if it applies, log a row in the cyber risk spreadsheet, repeat ~15-20 times a month) is finished now, not in five...

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Issue 2 · AI vuln discovery harness architecture

Chatbot or Vulnerability Discovery Tool?

The model is not the tool; the harness is the tool. The model provides reasoning and the harness turns reasoning into work against a real target, deciding which tools the model...

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Issue 3 · Agentic AI cost and quality variance

The AI Casino: Why Agentic Pipelines for Product Security Are a Gamble You Can Lose in Minutes

Running agentic AI pipelines on frontier models behaves like a casino: a paid B2B service where quality is neither guaranteed nor measurable, the operator can change the game...

2026-05-30 · PDF download
Issue 4 · Export control and model dependency

The day the frontier went dark

At 5:21pm ET the night before publication, Anthropic received a US government export control directive and within hours disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer: not...

2026-06-13 · PDF download
Issue 5 · FDA AI-enabled device cyber testing

Your AI-enabled medical device is about to get a deficiency for cyber testing

In 2025 FDA cleared 295 AI/ML-enabled devices, roughly 97% of them through 510(k), and most almost certainly did not perform the cybersecurity testing FDA's January 7, 2025...

2026-06-26 · PDF download
Issue 6 · AI export ban and dual-use defense

Technical breakdown of the export ban on cybersecurity testing

On June 13, 2026 the US Commerce Department issued an export control directive suspending Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national, including foreign national employees...

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Issue 7 · AI model choice as supply-chain risk

Cybersecurity Testing AI Model Arms Race Heats Up

The Wall Street Journal covered the Fable 5 and Mythos story from the model arms-race angle, framing the Commerce Department's move as partly driven by concern that a...

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Issue 8 · AI guardrails as a blocklist

Guarding the guardrails: AI reached for a 2005 idea

On July 1, 2026 Anthropic redeployed Fable 5 globally, with Mythos 5 restored to its Project Glasswing partners, after Commerce lifted the export ban; Fable had launched June 9...

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Issue 9 · FDA human factors vs cyber gap

FDA's cyber guidance keeps pointing at human factors. Human factors never points back.

FDA finalized 'Content of Human Factors Information in Medical Device Marketing Submissions' on May 29, 2026, replacing the December 2022 draft, with a town hall set for July...

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