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OpenAI is expanding its footprint beyond artificial intelligence products and into the security space. The company has launched a new initiative aimed at finding and patching vulnerabilities in open source software — a move that signals growing recognition that the foundation the tech world builds on needs serious attention.
On a related note, a free open source command-line tool called CVE Lite is gaining traction among JavaScript developers. Endorsed by OWASP, it runs locally to scan dependencies for known vulnerabilities and now includes override auditing — essentially helping teams catch outdated security advice before it causes real damage in the supply chain.
And for anyone curious about where AI systems actually come from, a developer has published DELN, an interactive atlas mapping major web crawl datasets used to train large language models. The project visualizes how these datasets relate to and influence one another, offering a rare window into the often opaque origins of the data powering modern artificial intelligence.
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