OpenAI’s upcoming AI model built 948 working Linux root exploits in a single run

What happened

An automated system running on an upcoming AI model turned hundreds of Linux kernel bugs into working exploits (a piece of code that turns a flaw into a way in) that give an ordinary user root access, and wrote a patch (a fix the maker issues for a flaw in its software) for each underlying flaw, OpenAI revealed in a new research post. Source:OpenAI The company’s Cyber team ran the pipeline in mid-October 2026 against the latest Linux kernel, with target machines running a stock desktop operating system from a commonly used distribution. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, founded in 2015.