John Z Black

Google Swallowed Wiz for $32 Billion. OpenAI Bought an LLM Red-Team Firm. Same Day.

John Z Black Mar 12, 2026

Industry #google #wiz #openai #promptfoo #mergers-acquisitions #cloud-security #ai-security #cspm #enterprise

Google closed its $32B Wiz acquisition while OpenAI snapped up Promptfoo, an AI security startup. Two deals, one message: the biggest platforms are making security a built-in feature, not something they outsource.

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AI Found Thousands of Software Bugs This Month. Then It Wrote Exploits.

John Z Black Mar 10, 2026

AI & Security #ai-security #vulnerability-research #firefox #openssh #chromium #anthropic #openai #exploit

Anthropic's Claude found 22 Firefox zero-days in two weeks and wrote working exploits for two of them. OpenAI's Codex flagged over 10,000 high-severity bugs across major open-source projects. AI-powered vulnerability research isn't theoretical anymore.

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