Report: OpenAI Interested in Acquiring Trail of Bits

OpenAI and Trail of Bits already team up on Patch the Planet. Now the AI giant is reportedly weighing an acquisition of the crypto audit stalwart. OpenAI is in early discussions to buy Trail of Bits, the New York security firm behind some of crypto’s most widely used smart contract tooling, according to The Information . No price has surfaced, and the talks could still fall through. Existing partners: The pair launched Patch the Planet in June, putting OpenAI’s Codex and cyber-specialized models in the hands of Trail of Bits engineers to find and fix bugs in critical open-source code.