{"type":"post","id":"a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root-0743d3","slug":"a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root-0743d3","title":"A thousand fewer paths to root","description":"OpenAI says an autonomous pipeline found and dynamically reproduced Linux kernel vulnerabilities, generated 948 working local privilege-escalation exploits, and prepared candidate patches in a mid-October run costing about $1.21 million in API credits.","retrieval_nugget":"OpenAI says an autonomous pipeline found and dynamically reproduced Linux kernel vulnerabilities, generated 948 working local privilege-escalation exploits, and prepared candidate patches in a mid-October run costing about $1.21 million in API credits. It puts a measurable scale and cost on AI-assisted vulnerability discovery—and on the human review and repair work it creates.","published_at":"2026-11-04","updated_at":"2026-11-04","record_date":"2026-11-04","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["security","verification"],"entities":["OpenAI","Linux kernel","GPT-5.5 Cyber","Patch the Planet","kernelCTF","GPT-5.6 Sol"],"related_patterns":["agent-economics-moves-to-completed-work"],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"OpenAI reports its expanded Linux-kernel pipeline validated 1,724 vulnerabilities and generated 948 privilege-escalation exploits and candidate patches, at $1.2 million API cost.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/openai-s-daybreak-lead-says-ai-generated-bug-83da82/","https://newruntime.com/posts/trail-of-bits-patch-the-planet-dashboard-shows-309b83/"],"source_url":"https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root","source_urls":["https://openai.com/index/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root-0743d3","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root-0743d3/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root-0743d3.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root-0743d3.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/a-thousand-fewer-paths-to-root-0743d3.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security/","title":"Security","reason":"Explore the security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/verification/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/verification/","title":"Verification","reason":"Explore the verification topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/verification.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/verification.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}