OpenAI makes its rival to Anthropic's Mythos more widely available to cyber defenders

OpenAI is rolling out a more permissible version of GPT-5.5 — aka "Spud" — to vetted cyber defenders, the company said Thursday. Why it matters: Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5 model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview. The capabilities of the new models have sparked an urgent debate in Silicon Valley and the White House about how to keep them out of the hands of bad actors.Driving the news: OpenAI is opening a limited preview of...