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Morning Edition · Wednesday, October 14, 2026Published at 1:36 AM EDT · New York
OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, the security firm that audits much of crypto's core code
The two companies have worked together since June on a program that pairs OpenAI's cyber models with Trail of Bits engineers to find bugs in open-source libraries.
OpenAI is considering an acquisition of Trail of Bits, the New York security firm, according to The Information. Reports based on that story say the talks are at an early stage and could still fail. No price has been reported. The Informati…
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AI Becomes a Contested Input to Crypto's Security Assumptions
Claims that advancing AI capability undermines blockchain cryptographic and mining security keep entering mainstream crypto debate, and each is met with the counterargument that the same capability accelerates formal verification and defensive auditing, so AI becomes a recurring two-sided variable in how the market prices protocol security rather than a settled threat.
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