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OpenAI's AI Just Found 948 Ways to Get Root on Linux — and It Cost Less Than a Bug Bounty

Originally published at ConvertElementor . OpenAI's Aardvark agent was given a simple brief: test how much of the Linux kernel an AI can actually secure. It ran for 10 days, at a cost of $88, and found 948 real security issues — 33 of them already confirmed by the Kernel Security team as genuine, v…

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-11-08 09:34 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Found 948 Linux Kernel Bugs — Here's How OpenAI's Models Did It
  2. 2026-11-07 04:17 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenAI GPT-6 Cyber: The Security AI That Found 948 Linux Flaws and 81 Firefox Bugs
  3. 2026-11-06 21:40 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenAI's AI Just Found 948 Ways to Get Root on Linux — and It Cost Less Than a Bug Bounty

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