OpenAI reportedly in talks to acquire security firm Trail of Bits

OpenAI is reportedly discussing a purchase of Trail of Bits, the New York-based security firm, according to a post circulating on X. Neither company has publicly confirmed any talks. Research into the claim found no credible evidence of acquisition discussions as of October 2026. For now, this is a rumor with a very plausible backstory. What we actually know The rumor is thin. What isn’t thin is the working relationship between the two companies. In June 2026, OpenAI and Trail of Bits launched an initiative called “Patch the Planet.” The goal is to harden open-source software, the free, community-maintained code that quietly runs underneath much of the internet. Patch the Planet pairs OpenAI’s AI models with Trail of Bits’ human security experts. The models named in the effort are GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security, which are OpenAI tools geared toward finding and fixing flaws in code. In the first week, Trail of Bits put roughly 25 engineers on the project. That team identified hundreds of vulnerabilities. It also merged dozens of patches across more than 30 open-source projects, including cURL, Python, and Go. Trail of Bits went AI-native first The partnership did not come out of n...