It Cost $40,000 to Find a Chrome Zero-Day With OpenAI's Sol Model
moyix · x · 2026-10-14
Forbes reports Xbow, a $1B AI cybersecurity startup, challenged its team to hack top internet apps with AI. At Black Hat, an engineer used OpenAI's Sol model to chain three unpatched vulnerabilities in Google Chrome, at a total cost of about $40,000—a landmark for AI-driven vulnerability discovery.
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