OpenAI upgrades GPT-5.5-Cyber and Codex Security plugin for vulnerability discovery and patching
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OpenAI expanded Daybreak by releasing an improved GPT-5.5-Cyber model and updating the Codex Security plugin, giving trusted defenders faster tooling for finding, validating, and patching vulnerabilities across large codebases. The update also adds report generation, threat-model tracing, and codebase-specific patch workflows for existing systems and production code. The release matters because it shifts more of the defensive vulnerability lifecycle into AI-assisted analysis and remediation.
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23.06.2026 06:56 2 articles · 2h ago
OpenAI expands Daybreak with GPT-5.5-Cyber, Codex Security plugin, and Patch the Planet
Initial DisclosureOpenAI expanded Daybreak by releasing an improved GPT-5.5-Cyber model to trusted defenders, updating the Codex Security plugin to speed deep scans, triage, validation, and codebase-specific patch generation, and launching Patch the Planet with Trail of Bits to help secure open-source projects. The company said the model can sustain deeper analysis across large codebases to identify security issues, validate them in a controlled environment, and develop and test patches, while the Daybreak effort has already surfaced vulnerabilities and exploit proofs-of-concept across Linux Kernel, OpenBSD's kernel implementation of System V semaphores, FreeBSD, dnsmasq, Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox.
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- OpenAI Expands Daybreak With GPT-5.5-Cyber to Help Defenders Patch Security Flaws — thehackernews.com — 23.06.2026 06:56
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