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XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days

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Security firm XBOW used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol to develop a Chrome exploit chaining three zero-day bugs in just six days, winning $250,000 from Google's bug bounty. The exploit allowed code execution outside Chrome's sandbox on Windows without user interaction, affecting about one billion users before patches.

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