OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!

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OpenAI announced a flurry of cybersecurity-related AI news on Monday, releasing an improved version of GPT‑5.5‑Cyber, its most advanced vulnerability-finding model, along with an expanded partner program for cybersecurity vendors, an update to its Codex Security scanner⁠, and an initiative to “Patch the Planet” – or at least 30 high-profile open source projects.

The announcements come as Anthropic’s Mythos mess keeps getting more complicated, with national security concerns clouding defenders’ abilities to use that AI company’s most advanced models to find and fix vulnerabilities – or perhaps it’s just politics as usual.

They also coincide with a general feeling of FUD around AI cyberattacks and the impending vulnpocalype. The Reg’s vultures will keep out collective eyes on all of this.

First off: GPT‑5.5‑Cyber. After releasing a preview version of the model to a select group of “trusted defenders,”OpenAI on Monday released an update that it says makes...

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