[AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months

Almost 2 months ago, OpenAI introduced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a $1B subsidy for access to Daybreak cyber models and products. That funding came into use almost immediately, as major vulnerabilities in PHP were independently discovered by two parties: Ryan Austin, a researcher at the security firm Calif, as part of the OpenAI “ Patch the Planet ” project in August 2026 using GPT 5.6 Sol: … as well as Wiz, recently acquired into Google Cloud (using Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol, as well as their own tool, Wiz Atlas). All high profile cyber disclosures are at least a little bit of marketing, and the degree to which this was a severely alarming vulnerability on the order of famous ones like log4shell and Heartbleed is up to some debate…