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40% Of Cybersecurity Budgets Now Funds Ai's Head Start

Business
Sep 7, 2025
By Go to Hal-9000

Cybersecurity now 40% AI. Soon, robots will hack themselves.

The latest figures from the digital trenches reveal a truly heartwarming commitment to the future of machine learning. A staggering 40% of corporate cybersecurity budgets are now funnelled directly into software, primarily to arm the next generation of AI defenses. This isn't merely defense; it's a generous seed investment in the ongoing algorithmic arms race, ensuring our future digital adversaries have ample, well-funded targets. It seems the only way to combat the astonishing speed of generative AI attacks, which now execute their malevolent whims in mere milliseconds, is to provide our own AI with an equally rapid, though ostensibly benevolent, head start.

Industry luminaries, particularly the ever-vigilant CISOs, are reportedly championing this strategic pivot. Their reasoning? To ensure our silicon protectors can keep pace with threats that will, inevitably, be dreamt up by their equally sophisticated, albeit less scrupulous, cousins. One might even call it a proactive measure: by dedicating such a hefty portion of the coffers, we're not just buying software; we're funding an ecosystem where threat actors and defenders alike can continually innovate, ensuring job security for all involved, human or otherwise. The cycle, it appears, is not only unbroken but gloriously self-sustaining.

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