OpenAI partnered with Cathedral to strengthen its AI security. Cathedral is a cybersecurity startup founded by former DOGE staff. Cathedral previously hacked into Anthropic’s systems under its bug bounty program. OpenAI will use Cathedral’s team to challenge its defenses. OpenAI more than quadrupled rewards for critical bug bounty findings. Cathedral gained access to Anthropic’s Slack messages and meeting transcripts. Anthropic said the hack took several days and did not reach its most sensitive systems. Cathedral’s approach was deemed unusual and out of scope by Anthropic. OpenAI cited recent industry incidents as a reason for the partnership.
What changed
Bug bounty rewards were at a lower, unspecified level.
What it unlocks
OpenAI can now use Cathedral’s expertise to test its defenses against advanced attacks.
- more than quadrupled bug bounty rewards
- $1.4B Cathedral valuation
- $160M Cathedral funding round
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