OpenAI Launches Cyber Model Amid AI Attack Surge

OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak cyber defense service into two tiers, Blue and Red, both offering approved customers access to frontier cybersecurity models. The expansion includes a new model, GPT-5.6-Cyber, available exclusively at the Red tier for trusted partners like Accenture, IBM, and Cloudflare. The announcement comes as AI-driven attacks grow rapidly, with models increasingly used for hacking, social engineering, and autonomous intrusions. Critics note the irony of AI labs marketing protection against threats their own technology helps enable.