August 16, 2026

OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.

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OpenAI has open-sourced an AI tool that hunts for security holes in your code. There is a catch: the part that does the hunting is still locked behind its approval. The company quietly released the Codex Security CLI this week, before it had even ann...