OpenAI launches Patch the Planet initiative with Trail of Bits to fix open-source vulnerabilities

According to TechCrunch and CSO Online, OpenAI partnered with cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits to deploy AI-assisted vulnerability research and remediation across widely-used open-source projects including Python, Go, cURL, Sigstore, NATS Server, aiohttp, freenginx, pyca/cryptography, and python.org. OpenAI said security engineers from Trail of Bits will review findings before reaching maintainers, work with projects to develop patches and tests, and build reusable workflows to help teams continue improving security after initial fixes.