Over 7,000 AI cybersecurity patents filed since 2018, and in 2025 autonomous systems overtook human-in-the-loop. The agentic blueprint already exists.
Kevin Mandia just raised $190 million for Armadin, a startup building AI agents that fight cyber threats without a human in the loop.
The patent data tells a bigger story. Over 7,000 AI cybersecurity patents have been filed since 2018, and the pace hit 2,000 per year in 2025. For the first time last year, most of those filings covered systems that act on their own, not ones that wait for a human to decide.
Those 7,000 patents are not just obstacles, they are a blueprint. They describe the same problems agentic AI needs to solve: when to act, when to escalate, and how to reverse a mistake. Platforms like OpenClaw are entering hyper-development, and the companies that take this existing IP and rebuild it for agent architectures will own what comes next.
The playbook already exists. The platform shift that makes it worth reinventing is just starting.
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Written by
John Cronin