OpenAI's cyber model found and patched 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for $1.2M
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-11-05
OpenAI says its security researchers built an autonomous pipeline for cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching. In a single run, an upcoming cyber model validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, at a total API cost of $1.2 million.
The news spread with the meme of Linux kernel maintainers "waking up to 948 patches from OpenAI," highlighting both the scale of autonomous security agents on a real codebase and the review burden such floods of automated patches create.
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