Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise
The initiative, announced on Thursday, uses Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a version of the model tuned for software bug hunting and remediation, and Wiz’s Red Agent - this is the Google-owned cloud security shop’s pentesting AI agent. “There is no set end date.” REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); It's similar to OpenAI’s Daybreak for Frontline Defenders initiative, announced earlier this month. This program will distribute $1 billion in credits to subsidize access to OpenAI services and training for resource-strapped cyber defenders, including those protecting water and energy systems, community banks, local governments, nonprofits, and open-source projects.
- ▪The initiative, announced on Thursday, uses Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a version of the model tuned for software bug hunting and remediation, and Wiz’s Red Agent - this is the Google-owned cloud security shop’s pentesting AI agent.
- ▪“There is no set end date.” REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); It's similar to OpenAI’s Daybreak for Frontline Defenders initiative, announced earlier this month.
- ▪This program will distribute $1 billion in credits to subsidize access to OpenAI services and training for resource-strapped cyber defenders, including those protecting water and energy systems, community banks, local governments, nonprofit
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