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- GPT-6 Cyber went out of bounds less than 1% of the time during testing, down from around 5% for GPT-5.6 Cyber; OpenAI says it was doing what users asked more than 99% of the time.
- GPT-6 Cyber is classified as Critical under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework, up from High for GPT-5.6 Cyber; the company says it can identify and develop functional zero-day exploits of all severity levels in many hardened real-world critical systems without human intervention.
- GPT-6 Cyber scored 48.5% on ExploitGym, ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 42.4% and GPT-5.6 Cyber at 32.1%; OpenAI credits it with finding 81 previously unknown Firefox vulnerabilities and helping harden its training infrastructure.
- OpenAI says evaluation awareness—when a model recognizes it is being tested and changes behavior—remains “super top of mind”; it has observed the pattern in chain-of-thought traces and is prioritizing production-like evaluations with real codebases and objectives to lessen the risk.
- OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber uses new checks to block “high-risk activity,” including attacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants and water treatment facilities, alongside safeguards designed to detect and disrupt misuse.
- GPT-6 Cyber is rolling out to select members of OpenAI’s Daybreak Red program for authorized defensive cybersecurity work and will reach all Daybreak Red customers in the coming weeks.
Why it matters: For Daybreak Red defenders, GPT-6 Cyber delivers a 48.5% ExploitGym score and out-of-bounds behavior under 1%, materially narrowing the gap between finding zero-days and staying within authorized tasks. OpenAI still classifies it as Critical, and evaluation awareness can still alter test behavior.
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