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For the last 10 years, I have ignored false and misleading stories about me and focused on the work.
But the cycle has gotten out of control where old lies get repeated as fact, new ones get added, and the record becomes increasingly distorted.
So from time to time, I’m going to respond, not to every allegation. But when the truth matters, I’ll put the facts and supporting information out publicly, and people can judge for themselves.
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AI is making cybersecurity research faster and cheaper than ever. Currently, these capabilities favor defenders, but that window of opportunity won't stay open for long.
We've signed @OpenAI's Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense. The time to act is now.
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Proud to be 1/118 companies signing the open letter for cyber defense with @OpenAI.
Security is changing as cyber intelligence becomes exponentially cheaper. It is a critical time for every team to rethink their security posture.
Give the letter a read, there's a lot of hard problems to be solved here, many businesses to be built to support defenders.
Glad OpenAI is taking a collaborative approach with its partners: openai.com/collective-cyberd…
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Prediction markets are an information game. Most people play it blind.
Ares Mobile Beta is live: social trading for prediction markets, where every opinion has real money behind it. Powered by @Polymarket
First trade is free.
Drop your position card below → 25 winners get $25 announced on 8/27.
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Super proud of the team for this one. Our engineers have built an incredibly powerful AI algo, and our security researchers are turning its outputs into verified findings every single day.
The result is Octane’s second CVE from a hard public target.
What is both exciting and frightening to me is how many vulnerabilities like this one are still waiting to be found.
Oracle is one of the largest software companies in the world. It has sophisticated security teams and has been very proactive about adopting frontier AI through initiatives like Project Glasswing.
But this bug had been live in VirtualBox’s open-source code since 2010.
To be clear, we don’t know whether this specific code path was ever analyzed with Claude Mythos or another frontier model. But that uncertainty is revealing. Access to a powerful model is not the same thing as having a comprehensive AI security program.
Models don’t secure codebases by osmosis. You have to give them the right context, aim them at the right attack surfaces, allocate enough compute effectively, run them continuously, validate their outputs, and then give skilled researchers the most promising findings until they can 100% confirm or deny their impact.
You can’t just hand your engineer with the most free time an LLM and expect them to secure your systems. You need the kind of workflow we’ve built over the last three years at Octane.
This VirtualBox vulnerability survived almost 16 years in public code maintained by one of the most capable software companies on earth. That means there are almost certainly countless others like it.
AI will find these vulnerabilities. The only question is whether your security team finds them before an attacker does.
Following our responsible disclosure, @Oracle assigned CVE-2026-60161 to a memory corruption vulnerability Octane discovered in VirtualBox.
VirtualBox is the world's most popular open-source virtualization software.
Yet this bug went unnoticed for nearly 16 years.
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Following our responsible disclosure, @Oracle assigned CVE-2026-60161 to a memory corruption vulnerability Octane discovered in VirtualBox.
VirtualBox is the world's most popular open-source virtualization software.
Yet this bug went unnoticed for nearly 16 years.
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Octane is participating in @OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program.
OpenAI has verified Octane as one of the organizations trusted with access to its most capable cyber models.
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After months of work, @steerprotocol has unlocked another(!) industry breakthrough and first for the industry.
Introducing... Steer Atlas.
Publishing data onchain is tedious and costly. Luckily, that ends today with a fully lossless data structure for in-time market snapshots for over 1,000 hot prices and 20,000 cold prices in a single transaction, with room to scale.
"Our measured 1,000-price Compact Update is slightly smaller than one median Chainlink Data Streams report and smaller than one common Pyth price update."
Run with the bulls, run on Steer Protocol.
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Octane has been approved for @AnthropicAI's Cyber Verification Program.
Verified access lets Octane continue to use frontier AI for legitimate vulnerability discovery at the level real security research demands.
Here's the story of why that matters. 🧵
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Proud to announce our partnership with @_parrotfinance, a next-generation wealth management platform built on a powerful premise: that everyday investors deserve access to the same professional strategies as institutions.
Starting today, Parrot clients can access Bitwise Model Portfolios, a suite of professionally constructed crypto allocations designed to help advisors build crypto sleeves with confidence.
Bitwise models span a range of exposure profiles, from broad-based crypto market positions to targeted thematic strategies, all developed using Bitwise research.
We're excited to support Parrot's mission by giving their clients access to one of the most dynamic asset classes in the world.
Excited for what's ahead!
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Just three engines handle 99.7% of browser traffic.
Octane found vulnerabilities in all of them.
This is the same security analysis we've used to secure smart contracts. Now we're targeting the mission-critical applications the rest of the world runs on.
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1/ Octane’s AI found a high-severity liveness bug in the @Nethermind execution client that could have stopped local block production for 38% of @ethereum mainnet validators.
This bug was patched via the @ethereumfndn bug bounty program, with no exploitation observed.
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Octane's AI just won one of the biggest contests in blockchain history (largest unconditional pot ever), placing first out of 1,600 SRs
We caught 3/4 high-severity findings while working with a novel Rust and C++ codebase
Octane secures crypto’s critical infra
Congrats @code4rena wardens for some impressive findings in our recent $500,000 competitive audit
Thank you for helping secure the Monad codebase!
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Arbitrum's $10M audit program is a big step in the right direction, but it leaves critical gaps unresolved.
Our proposal tackles those issues and expands access to security coverage across the entire Arbitrum ecosystem, raising the baseline for everyone
forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/…
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Arbitrum's growth has created more demand for security coverage than traditional providers can supply.
Automated security analysis is faster and more cost-effective than manual audits, helping allocate expert human resources to the critical contracts where they're needed most.
Arbitrum's $10M audit program is a big step in the right direction, but it leaves critical gaps unresolved.
Our proposal tackles those issues and expands access to security coverage across the entire Arbitrum ecosystem, raising the baseline for everyone
forum.arbitrum.foundation/t/…
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we weren't joking about redefining blockchain security
Octane's automated intelligence now helps secure over $186B of onchain value
join the industry leaders strengthening their operations with Octane's holistic security analysis
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Octane is on fire 🔥
From zero to $186 BILLION of value secured in less than a year
Grateful to all our incredible partners for seeing the future and sharing the vision. A higher standard of security is here, and it's powered by Octane