… It appeared to reference the recent jailbreaking travails of its rival Anthropic, writing that “GPT‐5.6 is trained to refuse prohibited cyber assistance, including when users attempt to disguise their intent or jailbreak the model.” It also said that flagship model Sol “is better at helping people … …
… OpenAI's latest publicly available frontier model, GPT-5.6 Sol, is already classified as having "High" cybersecurity capabilities under its own Preparedness Framework. …
… The company still has a Head of Preparedness on its roster, who was hired earlier this year to "prepare for and mitigate ... severe risks," as indicated by OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, on X .
… In a post on its website, OpenAI said internal evaluations of its upcoming model, called Astra, showed "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity," resulting in OpenAI not being able to "rule out critical cyber capabilities." According to OpenAI, it can't declare with certainty t… …
… OpenAI says its newest internal evaluations show "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity," and it cannot rule out "critical cyber capabilities." Prior OpenAI models, including GPT–5.6 Sol, were labeled as "High." Astra triggers stricter guidelines in OpenAI's " Preparedness Fr… …
… WIRED has also learned that Dylan Scandinaro is no longer serving as OpenAI’s head of preparedness—the company’s top staffer tasked with mitigating catastrophic risks from AI, including cybersecurity—though he remains at the company. …
… Under the company’s “Preparedness Framework,” which it created in 2023, this triggered additional safeguards. “While we continue to benchmark and assess this model, our preliminary evaluations indicate strong enough performance that we cannot rule out Critical capability level at this time,” OpenAI… …
… Dylan Scandinaro, its current head of preparedness, was hired from Anthropic in February. …
… We tend to think of disaster preparedness for natural events—hurricane, flood, fire. …