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OpenAI's Defense Factory closes 53 urgent issues

OpenAI says its Defense Factory sprint closed 53 urgent or high-priority issues on day one after bringing together more than 250 people across 100+ service areas, according to OpenAI’s Defense Factory playbook. A detailed account of the reported sprint metrics says the workflow also logged 90.6% accepted ownership assignments and a 0.81% post-validation false-positive rate; these are internal company metrics, not an independent benchmark. Security teams should copy the closed loop—inventory, reproduce, assign, patch, validate—before granting agents production authority; Microsoft’s small-model security-routing result is a useful control-and-cost comparison.