# OpenAI is in talks to buy Trail of Bits as the Federal Trade Commission demands safety-incident records from OpenAI and Anthropic

Both labs are turning models that can find and exploit software flaws into security businesses, and the regulator's demands follow incidents in which AI agents accessed outside systems without authorization.

- Published: 2026-10-16T06:26:08.965Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-10-16/openai-is-in-talks-to-buy-trail-of-bits-as-the-federal-trade
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/news/cyber-verification-program)

OpenAI is in early talks to acquire Trail of Bits, the New York security firm. The two companies already work together on Patch the Planet, a project in which OpenAI models and Trail of Bits tools automatically find and fix bugs in open-sou…

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