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📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: OpenAI launches Aardvark AI agent built to protect critic

OpenAI has unveiled Aardvark, autonomous AI agent that hunts for software vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them.

Powered by GPT-5, Aardvark could redefine how security teams protect critical codebases, acting as a tireless, intelligent partner that never stops scanning, testing, and fixing.

Software security remains one of technology’s most difficult frontiers. Every year, tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered in enterprise and open-source software.

OpenAI says it built Aardvark to “tip that balance in favor of defenders,” enabling faster detection and repair than human researchers can manage alone.

Described as “an agentic security researcher,” Aardvark uses large language model reasoning and tool-use instead of traditional methods like fuzzing or static analysis.

The AI reads and interprets code like a human would—identifying risks, testing exploits, and generating patches in real time.

“Aardvark represents a breakthrough in AI and security research: an autonomous agent that can help developers and security teams discover and fix security vulnerabilities at scale,” OpenAI said.

The system is currently available in private beta as OpenAI validates its capabilities with early partners.

How the agent works

Aardvark continuously monitors source code repositories, analyzing commits, scanning for vulnerabilities, and prioritizing which ones matter most.

It then tests potential flaws in a secure, sandboxed environment to confirm if they can actually be exploited. Once verified, Aardvark automatically proposes fixes through OpenAI Codex, attaching ready-to-review patches for developers.

While it reasons and tests much like a human security researcher, reading code, identifying logic flaws, and suggesting targeted fixes, the final decision always rests with developers, who review and approve each patch.

According to OpenAI, “Aardvark looks for bugs as a human security researcher might: by reading code, analyzing it, writing and running tests, using tools, and more.”

In internal use, it has already helped uncover and fix meaningful vulnerabilities across OpenAI’s own systems and those of select alpha partners.

During benchmark testing, the AI identified 92% of known and synthetically introduced vulnerabilities, demonstrating what OpenAI calls “high recall and real-world effectiveness.” Partners have praised its ability to spot issues that emerge only under complex, real-world conditions.

Defending open source

Aardvark has also been deployed across open-source projects, responsibly disclosing multiple vulnerabilities, ten of which have been assigned CVE identifiers.

OpenAI says it plans to offer pro-bono scanning for select non-commercial repositories to help secure the open-source ecosystem.

“As beneficiaries of decades of open research and responsible disclosure, we’re committed to giving back,” the company said, adding that it will contribute “tools and findings that make the digital ecosystem safer for everyone.”

The company recently updated its disclosure policy to make it more developer-friendly, focusing on collaboration and sustainable impact rather than rigid timelines.

It anticipates that Aardvark and similar tools will uncover growing numbers of bugs, demanding new cooperative frameworks for long-term software resilience.

A new defense era

With over 40,000 vulnerabilities reported in 2024 alone, Aardvark’s launch comes at a pivotal moment. OpenAI calls it “a new defender-first model,” built to protect evolving codebases without slowing innovation.

By catching vulnerabilities early and offering precise fixes, Aardvark could shift cybersecurity from reactive defense to continuous, proactive protection.

The private beta is now open to select partners. OpenAI invites organizations to test Aardvark’s performance “across a variety of environments” and work directly with its team to refine accuracy and reporting.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: Immediately After Ditching Its Nonprofit Roots, OpenAI Is Alre

OpenAI’s extraordinary private valuation of $500 billion simply wasn’t enough.

After completing its restructuring into a for-profit corporate entity this week, Reuters reports that OpenAI is already setting plans into motion to become a publicly traded company.

The move will almost certainly skyrocket the ChatGPT maker’s already colossal touted value. Three people familiar with the matter told the outlet that the Sam Altman-led company is preparing for an initial public offering that could push its worth as high as $1 trillion — showing that it expects to have one of the biggest IPOs of all time.

And it’s aiming to do it fast. Reuters sources said that OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, while its chief financial officer Sarah Friar has reportedly told associates that the goal is to be listed by 2027.

Keeping to the company’s putative mission of building an all-powerful “artificial general intelligence” for the benefit of humankind — an alibi that’s becoming less and less credible with each passing week — an OpenAI spokesperson claimed that going public isn’t its main priority.

“An IPO is not our focus, so we could not possibly have set a date,” the spokesperson told Reuters. “We are building a durable business and advancing our mission so everyone benefits from AGI.”

OpenAI completed the restructuring of its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation earlier this week, bringing to an end a year-and-a-half saga marked by legal disputes with cofounder Elon Musk, who left the company in 2018 and has feuded with Altman ever since, and strained negotiations with Microsoft, which owns a large stake in OpenAI and has been its most important benefactor.

That OpenAI is going public is no surprise — it’s one of the main advantages afforded by its conversion into a public benefit corporation, which is just a for-profit corporation with a nominal commitment to bettering society. But the speed with which it’s pursuing these plans and the incredible valuation it’s considering for the IPO illustrate the company’s urgency for getting cash. It has struggled to monetize its AI products, and is investing hundreds of billions of dollars to expand its data center empire.

Reuters‘ sources said that OpenAI has looked at raising $60 billion at the low end from the IPO, which would be over twice the most amount of capital raised from any IPO in history. With its successful conversion into a for-profit corporation, it also expects to receive the full $30 billion investment pledged by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, which had threatened to withhold at least $10 billion if OpenAI didn’t complete the restructuring.

Technically, OpenAI is still controlled by its nonprofit arm, which now owns 26 percent of the public benefit corporation, an amount equal to some $100 billion. But with such a large stake, its success is now significantly tied to its for-profit corporation making as much money as possible, which would seem to be in conflict with OpenAI’s original altruist mission of benefiting humanity as a whole. Arguably, though, it’s been clear for a while now that that ship has sailed.

All that being said, IPOs don’t always go according to plan. OpenAI can say it’s worth a trillion dollars, but garner investments that don’t reflect it. Whether the ludicrous hype cycle the AI industry is currently profiting from will still be holding strong when OpenAI goes public is anyone’s guess.

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