TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI is in early acquisition talks with New York-based cybersecurity company Trail of Bits, with no deal value disclosed and no public confirmation from either side. The move would add a security research and engineering team to OpenAI’s business lines. Trail of Bits, founded in 2012 and staffed at around 40 people, has audited smart contracts for Uniswap, Aave, Worldcoin and Arbitrum, and maintains open-source tools including Slither, Echidna and Manticore.
OpenAI in Early Talks to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Trail of Bits
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The strategic logic here is less about OpenAI selling security services and more about acquiring scarce audit expertise that sits at the intersection of AI and on-chain infrastructure. Trail of Bits' smart-contract work for DeFi protocols and its open-source tooling give OpenAI a credentialed foothold in a market where AI-generated code is expanding faster than the capacity to review it. For crypto teams, the relevant question is whether that tooling and audit pipeline stay neutral and open as they move under a single corporate owner — that, not the deal price, is what the ecosystem will be watching.
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