Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first dedicated cybersecurity model, and integrated it into MDASH, the company’s vulnerability-hunting system. Microsoft said the combined setup scored 95.95% on the CyberGym benchmark, ahead of GPT-5.5 Cyber at 85.6%, Anthropic’s Mythos 5 at 83.8%, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol at 83.6%, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber at 83.2%. The company also said the new configuration delivers that result at half the cost of its current best MDASH setup. CyberGym asks AI agents to reproduce 1,507 known vulnerabilities across 188 open-source projects and scores them by successful reproduction rate in a controlled environment. Microsoft said MAI-Cyber-1-Flash handles up to 90% of tasks, while MDASH routes the hardest 10% to GPT-5.4. The result was self-reported and had not appeared on CyberGym’s public leaderboard at publication time. Microsoft is rolling out MDASH in private preview through Microsoft Security Exposure Management in the Defender portal. Customers can scan Git repositories, review findings ranked from unlikely to proven, and use Defender CLI to generate proposed code fixes. The preview currently caps repositories at roughly 256MB and allows one concurrent scan per tenant.

NVIDIA and Microsoft have joined other major technology companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new group focused on promoting open-source AI for cybersecurity use cases. The alliance says open and closed AI systems should work together to strengthen cyber defenses rather than be treated as opposing approaches. Founding members named in the announcement include IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Hugging Face. The group plans to build several tools, including NVIDIA’s NOOA agent framework, Microsoft’s MDASH vulnerability scanning system, and secure coding tools. It also urged regulators to treat open-source AI as a defensive resource and to invest in shared AI security infrastructure instead of imposing blanket restrictions on open models. The development was reported by CryptoBriefing and cited by Techub News.

NVIDIA said it has formed the Open Secure AI Alliance with a group of founding members including Adobe, CrowdStrike, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, SpaceXAI and organizations such as the Linux Foundation, according to the NVIDIA Blog. The alliance is focused on building and sharing open-source models, agent harnesses and security tools for cybersecurity and AI safety defense. Initial contributions named by the group include NVIDIA’s NOOA agent framework, the SPIFFE/SPIRE zero-trust identity standard with HPE participation, Hugging Face’s Safetensors model weight format, IBM and Red Hat’s Lightwell supply-chain signing patch, Microsoft’s MDASH multi-model vulnerability scanning system, and SpaceXAI’s open-source Grok Build coding agent alongside plans to open Grok model weights. The alliance also called on regulators to treat open models and tools as defensive assets rather than as a regulatory burden.

The crypto market cap fell to $2.64 trillion on May 26, with BTC and ETH posting mild losses while NEAR and DeXe outperformed. ESPORTS dropped more than 90% within hours, and SLX lost 42.27%.

Privacy coins like ZEC, XMR, and DASH outperformed in 2025. Experts expect the trend to continue in 2026, though regulatory tightening under MiCA and AML rules could cap gains.

Crypto market cap rose to $2.55T on April 11, with BTC and ETH edging up. RAVE and Falcon Finance jumped 74% and 47%. Fear & Greed Index dropped to 15 (Extreme Fear). Ethereum Foundation sold 5,000 ETH; Bitwise filed revised Hyperliquid ETF.

GameFi sector climbs 4.64% in 24 hours, with Axie Infinity soaring 36.94%. Bitcoin holds above $88K while capital flows into high-beta altcoins. Analysts view the rally as a positive market signal.

Bitcoin gained 1.3% to $96,326.87 with $66.4 billion in 24-hour volume, while Ethereum, XRP, Solana, BNB, and Wrapped stETH posted declines. Smaller tokens including LGCT and KLED led the day’s gains.