A significant development in cybersecurity has emerged with the first public instance of an AI agent successfully identifying a previously unknown exploitable memory-safety vulnerability, or zero-day, in widely used real-world software. This AI agent demonstrated its effectiveness by even surpassing AFL, a popular fuzzer, in uncovering the vulnerability. This breakthrough underscores the growing capabilities of AI in proactively detecting security flaws and underscores its pivotal role in bolstering cybersecurity measures.