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Researchers running an autonomous pipeline in mid-October 2026 identified 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux. The system cost $1.2 million in API credits to generate 948 working exploits. This automated approach dynamically reproduced 1,724 candidate findings, significantly outperforming previous GPT-5.6 runs by over five times in discovering novel techniques.
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