Security officials are sounding the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in a programming language used to run millions of websites, marking one of the most consequential cybersecurity discoveries yet made with AI .

Why it matters : The bugs, which researchers found partly with an OpenAI model, proves AI can uncover critical flaws humans missed for decades — raising the stakes for defenders racing to fix vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them at machine speed.

What's happening: There are two problems hackers could easily exploit in an open-source programming language known as PHP that's used on nearly 70% of all websites .

Government officials from the U.S.…