OpenAI Unlocks Cybersecurity Model for Europe
OpenAI Unlocks Cybersecurity Model for Europe
https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/openai-unlocks-cybersecurity-model-for-europe-a-31664
Publish Date: 2026-05-12 14:03:00
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OpenAI is stepping up to do what arch-rival Anthropic still won’t. The artificial intelligence firm will give European authorities and companies access to its new vulnerability-finding AI model, so they can beef up their cybersecurity.
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On Monday, the European commission said OpenAI had agreed to let it poke around GPT-5.5-Cyber, which is the company’s answer to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview. At a press briefing, spokesman Thomas Regnier welcomed OpenAI’s “transparency” and said the development would allow the EU executive body to “follow the deployment of this model very closely, but also to potentially address certain security concerns in a closer way.”
There are still many details to be established, in talks that Regnier said will continue this week. One big question is who at the commission will get access to the model. The contenders are the commission’s new AI Office, its directorate-general for technology – which has a cybersecurity director – and cybersecurity agency ENISA. “One step at a time,” said the spokesman.
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