Silicon Valley grapples with a flood of bugs found by AI

New York Times29 Oct, 2026 01:00 AM7 mins to readArtificial intelligence has uncovered a horde of software flaws, which engineers are racing to fix before they can be exploited and abused by hackers. Photo / Ariel Davis, The New York TimesOn October 21, Fouad Matin, who leads OpenAI’s cyber preparedness and safety efforts, had planned to spend the evening with friends to celebrate his birthday. Instead, he was running on about two hours of sleep as he juggled efforts to patch two critical security vulnerabilities that had been discovered by