OpenAI says its cyber model found and patched nearly 1000 Linux kernel security issues

OpenAI used AI agents to analyze the Linux kernel, uncovering 948 distinct privilege-escalation vulnerabilities The automated pipeline generated exploits, validated findings, and helped create patches for Linux maintainers Researchers say AI is increasingly capable of finding and prioritizing serious software flaws at scale OpenAI has spent more than a million dollars to analyze the Linux kernel code, and found thousands of vulnerabilities, including countless privilege escalation flaws that could have been quite problematic for the popular operating system. The AI company published a new in-depth report describing how it built a five-stage pipeline that helped it surface thousands of vulnerabilities, identify which ones were actually dangerous, helped create patches, and ended up securing the Linux ecosystem some more.