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AI Models From OpenAI and Wiz Uncover Decades-Old Critical PHP Vulnerabilities, Prompting NSA Warning

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The NSA issued an urgent warning about two critical PHP vulnerabilities, present since PHP 5 in 2004, that let attackers reach server file systems and databases on a large share of the web's sites. The flaws were found by security firm Calif using GPT-5.6 Sol under OpenAI's 'Patch the Planet' initiative, and separately by Wiz using its Atlas agent, Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol. Wiz cautioned that LLMs now make such previously hard-to-exploit flaws practical to weaponize, setting off a patching race.

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Skynet Chance (+0.02%): Frontier AI models can now find and help weaponize deep vulnerabilities in critical internet infrastructure, which shows growing offensive cyber capability that could be misused or exploited by uncontrolled systems. Responsible disclosure and defensive use partly offset this risk.

Skynet Date (+0 days): Advanced autonomous security agents are already operating at internet scale, so dangerous dual-use cyber capabilities are maturing faster than expected.

AGI Progress (+0.01%): Finding subtle, decades-old flaws that human experts missed shows strong expert-level code reasoning and agentic capability in models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon.

AGI Date (+0 days): Practical demonstrations of high-value expert-level performance point to rapid capability gains and will likely drive further investment, modestly accelerating the timeline.

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