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XBOW used GPT-5.6 Sol to build a $250,000 Chrome exploit in six days

The Next Web By Ana Maria Constantin
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“Pre-LLMs a Chrome full chain would take a team of four around 6-9 months to be produced, our first submission took 2 months. The awarded one? six days,” XBOW researcher Brendan Dolan-Gavitt wrote in a technical write-up.

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