OpenAI in talks to buy cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits

According to The Information, OpenAI is in early talks to buy cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits (about 40 employees, clients include Uniswap, Aave, and Worldcoin), with whom it has already collaborated on the Patch the Planet project.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-10-15Updated 2026-10-15

2026-10-15 Business OpenAI

💼 OpenAI may buy cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits

The Information reports on early talks: the New York-based firm has about 40 employees, with clients including Uniswap, Aave, and Worldcoin. They previously collaborated on Patch the Planet: OpenAI models independently found and fixed bugs in open-source code. Also in this issue: TTS model Drama 3, the Moondream acquisition, and Manus agents in ColorOS 17.

🌍 AI production is consolidating: OpenAI wants to own cybersecurity expertise, Prime Intellect — the Photon inference engine, and the open weights of Drama 3 are putting pressure on paid TTS APIs.

👤 Drama 3 weights are open on Hugging Face: commercial use is free for revenue up to $500K per year, API is on promo at $10 per million characters until November 12. Apps from Google AI Studio can be published to the Play Store without a paid developer account starting October 13.

Source 1: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-early-talks-buy-security-startup-trail-bits Source 2: https://fish.audio/blog/fish-audio-drama-3/

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