OpenAI autonomous pipeline finds 948 Linux privilege-escalation flaws

OpenAI detailed an autonomous vulnerability discovery, validation, exploitation, and patching pipeline that, in one mid-October run, dynamically reproduced 1,724 vulnerabilities and generated 948 working local privilege-escalation exploits for a common Linux distribution at an API cost of about $1.2 million. The work advances automated defensive cybersecurity at scale and was reported with candidate patches to maintainers under the Patch the Planet initiative.