OpenAI launches Patch the Planet to coordinate open-source critical vulnerability response

OpenAI introduced the Patch the Planet project, positioned to connect security researchers, open-source maintainers and incident responders for coordinated response to critical vulnerabilities in open-source software. The original text focuses on the coordination mechanism itself: who participates, what problem it targets, and why global-scale response coordination is needed once agents begin finding critical vulnerabilities. For open-source maintainers, the change is that vulnerability disclosure is no longer a lone patch effort after receiving a report, but a coordinated process involving incident responders; for security researchers and response teams, there is now a unified channel for engagement. The original text does not disclose specific tool interfaces, participation methods or vulnerability counts, so these details remain unknown.