OpenAI says ChatGPT Sol helped uncover critical PHP flaws that could affect 70% of websites

OpenAI announced in a press release on Oct. 21 that researchers working under its “Patch the Planet” cybersecurity initiative used its AI model GPT-5.6 Sol to uncover critical security vulnerabilities in PHP (an open-source programming language that runs an estimated 70% of the internet). After the discovery, the company says it coordinated a coalition of researchers, PHP maintainers, security providers, and government cybersecurity agencies to fix the issues over two months. The company attributed the lengthy timeline to the task's complexity, which required major changes to the PHP engine. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply Demand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsible Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM…