OpenAI pipeline finds and patches 948 Linux local privilege escalations

OpenAI describes an autonomous discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline that, in one mid-October run with an upcoming cyber model, dynamically reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities and produced 948 working local privilege escalation exploits at about $1.2 million in API cost, or $1,279 per LPE. Agents also generated candidate patches; humans review before reporting via Patch the Planet. On a hardened kernelCTF-style setup the same pipeline got 21 LPEs for roughly $33k in credits.