OpenAI used AI to find nearly 1,000 ways for hackers to hijack Linux
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OpenAI has been steadily building its AI-powered cybersecurity efforts, first with Aardvark in 2025, and then with Codex Security and its Patch the Planet initiative in 2026. Previous experiments on Linux kernel security uncovered hundreds of possible vulnerabilities. Now OpenAI has taken that research a step further, revealing that its latest automated pipeline has discovered 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to obtain root access. The research, published on November 4, outlines an automated pipeline for finding, exploiting, and patching vulnerabilities, powered by a forthcoming AI model for cybersecurity. Rather than having researchers manually inspect individual kernel sections, the system breaks the process into five stages: vulnerability discovery, dynamic validation, exploitability assessment, patch generation, and human review.
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