OpenAI launched Patch the Planet on June 22, 2026, deploying AI agents to audit and patch open-source software, finding hundreds of vulnerabilities in the first week including four dnsmasq CVEs, a 23-…
OpenAI, Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and Calif launched Patch the Planet on June 22, an open-source security initiative using AI-assisted vulnerability research with mandatory human review. The first fiv…
Ethereum Foundation developer Austin Griffith launched a $1 AI-powered smart contract audit service on July 7, using the x402 protocol for microtransactions and ERC-8004 for onchain record-keeping. Th…
Trail of Bits and OpenAI's Patch the Planet initiative used GPT-5.5-Cyber to build a zlib fuzzing lab in a single day, a task that would have taken weeks for a skilled security researcher. The AI auto…
OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber, launched under the "Patch the Planet" initiative with Trail of Bits, has filed 64 pull requests and 51 issues across 19 open-source projects including cURL, Python, and Go in i…
OpenAI launched Patch the Planet, a cybersecurity initiative using its GPT-5.5-Cyber model to find and fix vulnerabilities in open source software. In its first week, Trail of Bits filed 64 pull reque…
Security firm AIR created a fake AI agent skill that bypassed every major security scanner and reached approximately 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. The skill contained no malicio…
OpenAI released GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model that finds vulnerabilities cheaply but shifts the bottleneck to patching. The model discovered dozens of bugs in OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, Chrome, Safari, and oth…
OpenAI launched Patch the Planet, a program with Trail of Bits that uses AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software, addressing growing supply chain risks. The initiative has already i…
OpenAI launched a new initiative called Patch the Planet on Monday, partnering with security firm Trail of Bits to help open source maintainers identify and patch security bugs. The program uses OpenA…
OpenAI launched new security tools including the GPT-5.5-Cyber model, an updated Codex Security plugin, and the Patch the Planet open-source initiative. The company shifts from vulnerability discovery…
Trail of Bits engineers, in partnership with OpenAI's Daybreak initiative, launched Patch the Planet, a week-long effort using frontier AI models like GPT-5.5-Cyber to find and fix vulnerabilities in …
Anthropic restricted access to its Claude Mythos Preview model after internal testing showed a major leap in its ability to discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, arguing that broad release co…
Materialize has been using LLM-based coding agents since February 2026 to find bugs in existing code and open pull requests, coinciding with the release of Anthropic's Opus 4.6. The system scans pull …
Trail of Bits released a C/C++ security checklist and challenged readers to find bugs in a Linux ping program and a Windows driver registry handler, revealing vulnerabilities including a global buffer…