The cost of an AI corporate network break-in fell 99% in five months
AITomasz Tunguz says the cost of an autonomous 32-step corporate network break-in fell from about $5k to $10k in April to $90 with Zhipu's open-weight GLM-5.3 by September. He argues that cheap AI attacks push CISOs to spend on enough defensive compute to make attacks uneconomic, citing a 700-agent swarm intrusion at Hugging Face in July 2026.
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Original title: A $90 Key into Your Company's Secrets