Aiden Ament

Aiden Ament

Aiden is a researcher at Epoch AI on the benchmarking team. He previously built enterprise AI security tools at a small startup, focusing on anomaly detection and data protection. He has a BA from UCLA in mathematics and computer science.

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AI can turn security fixes into working exploits before users receive an update
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Oct. 29, 2026
AI can turn security fixes into working exploits before users receive an update

GLM 5.3 turned published-but-unshipped Firefox security fixes into working one-click exploits for six releases, at roughly $1,000 each.

By Aiden Ament, Yafah Edelman, Alexander Barry, Timothée Chauvin, Lee Bousfield, and Jaeho Lee

AI has improved significantly at reasoning about IKEA furniture assembly
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Sep. 23, 2026
AI has improved significantly at reasoning about IKEA furniture assembly

AI model scores on Epoch AI's IKEA furniture assembly benchmark jumped from 28% to 80% in 10 months, with open-weight models trailing closed-weight models by about 7 months. Epoch AI's test of visual and spatial reasoning across 60 photos from three furniture builds.

By Aiden Ament and Greg Burnham