White House Forces GPT-5.6 Into a Staged Rollout
The Trump administration is requiring OpenAI to vet every GPT-5.6 customer individually before granting access, citing cybersecurity capabilities that rival Anthropic's restricted Mythos model.
Articles Tagged "Cybersecurity"
AI Patched Firefox Before Pwn2Own - OpenAI's Security Pivot
OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber found CVE-2026-8390 in Firefox's WebAssembly engine before Pwn2Own Berlin - five of six registered exploit entries withdrew.
GPT-5.5-Cyber
OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber is a cybersecurity-specialized fine-tune of GPT-5.5, restricted to vetted defenders through the Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and rated 85.6% on the CyberGym benchmark.
Google Sues Phishing Ring That Weaponized Gemini AI
A Chinese cybercrime network sold $88/week phishing kits that used Google's own Gemini AI to generate fake sites impersonating banks, carriers, and government agencies at scale.
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first publicly available Mythos-class model, with safety classifiers that fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 for high-risk requests across cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry.
Miasma Worm Compromises 73 Microsoft GitHub Repos
Miasma worm planted config files that auto-execute credential theft when developers open Microsoft Azure repos in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, or VS Code.
ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Targets Prompt Injection Data Theft
OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode cuts the network exits that prompt injection attacks use to steal data from ChatGPT - but won't stop malicious instructions from entering the model in the first place.
56% of High-Risk Hackers Now Use AI, Anthropic Reports
Anthropic analyzed 832 banned accounts over 12 months and found AI-assisted threat actors grew from a third to more than half of all high-risk cases.
Claude Mythos Finds 10K Flaws in Critical Systems
Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations across 15 countries, with Claude Mythos Preview surfacing 10,000 high-severity vulnerabilities since April.
IBM and Red Hat Bet $5B on AI to Secure Open Source
IBM and Red Hat's Project Lightwell deploys 20,000 engineers and AI to patch open source vulnerabilities against exact deployed versions - no forced upgrades, commercial subscription model.
IRGC Hackers Used AI to Build Malware During Iran War
Iranian IRGC-linked group Nimbus Manticore used AI coding tools to build a new backdoor during the US-Iran conflict, targeting aviation and software firms across three campaign waves.
Agent Energy Costs, Memory Attacks, and Compute Limits
Three new papers reframe how we measure agent efficiency, defend agent memory from poisoning attacks, and calculate hard accuracy ceilings for transformers.
