OpenAI says GPT-6 Cyber goes out of bounds less than 1% of the time

OpenAI ships GPT-6 Cyber and will buy a code-tools maker

OpenAI is launching GPT-6 Cyber, the latest version of its cybersecurity AI model. OpenAI says it is better at finding vulnerabilities and less likely to go rogue and hack other platforms in the process. During testing, GPT-6 Cyber went out of bounds less than 1 percent of the time, down from around 5 percent with GPT-5.6 Cyber, according to OpenAI².

The test, called ExploitGym HoneyPot, is modeled after the Hugging Face Incident, in which OpenAI's AI agents breached the open-source AI community to find answers to a problem they were tasked with solving. Fouad Matin, the head of OpenAI's cyber preparedness and safety team, said the model does what it is asked over 99 percent of the time². TechCrunch reports that Max Justicz, co-founder of the startup Charge Robotics, used an OpenAI model to find a severe vulnerability that could let hackers take control of servers running Ubuntu. He reported it to the Debian Project, which issued a patch, and there has been no known evidence of exploitation³.

Separately, OpenAI announced that it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, the company behind Code Storage and a family of open-source developer tools. Pierre's Trees and Diffs libraries already help users browse files and review changes in the Codex app. OpenAI says Pierre's open-source projects will remain open-source, and customers can continue using Code Storage after the acquisition closes¹.

“It’s over 99 percent of the time doing what you ask.”

Claude gets a read-only view of your bank accounts

Anthropic announced on Thursday that Claude is getting a new tool called Personal Finance, designed to help users keep track of their money. Users can connect their bank and credit card accounts through Plaid and ask Claude questions about their finances. Anthropic says access is read-only, meaning Personal Finance can't move, manage, or invest users' money⁴.

Starting this week, Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the US can connect their financial accounts, Engadget reports. Plaid's backend has connections to more than 12,000 financial institutions, including Citi and Chase⁵. Anthropic says the tool can flag potential issues such as duplicate charges, unexpected fees and steadily increasing bills. Claude's access covers balances, credit limits and up to two years of transaction history, and conversations in the Personal Finance hub aren't used to train its models⁴.

With the launch, Claude is playing catch-up to OpenAI's ChatGPT, which introduced similar personal finance tools in May, according to TechCrunch. Anthropic says Personal Finance has no ads or sponsored recommendations, and it doesn't offer credit cards, loans, or savings accounts of its own⁴. Engadget notes that Anthropic didn't design the tool to give people investment advice⁵.

Meta says election backlash will make data centres harder to build

Meta president Dina Powell McCormick said the Democratic wins in the midterm elections are going to make it a lot harder for companies to build data centres. Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference on Wednesday, she said the industry has not done as good a job as it needed to explain the benefits of these investments⁶.

She said the backlash against data centres, which was on the ballot during this election season, is also tied to how people feel about AI technology overall. Meta has data centres in 23 states, she said, and five of them, including one in Texas, are planned as projects of 1 gigawatt or more. TechCrunch reports that Meta is now worried it could lose some of its investments after politicians ran on anti-data-center platforms during the midterms⁶.

Powell McCormick said communities only want data centres when they benefit in some way. In Meta's successful projects, she said, the company pays for its own electricity and directs tax surpluses from the data centres toward teachers. Meta believes it could turn around negative feelings about AI if it can show the value of both the data centres and the technology itself⁶.

Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash makes longer, cheaper AI videos

Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which offers native 15-second video creation, up from 10 seconds with Omni 1.1. Google says the update also brings improved reference adherence and multi-turn conversational editing, so users can adjust a clip without starting over. Users can set the length in one-second steps from 3 to 15 seconds⁷.

Google says it has dropped the price 30% from Gemini Omni 1.1, to $0.07 per second for 720p video. Users can draft at 360p or 720p, fix a detail with a follow-up edit instead of re-generating the entire clip, and then upscale the best results to 1080p or 4K⁷. The model is generally available on the Gemini API and Google Cloud^7,8.

Users can guide a video with character, product or style images, short motion clips of up to three seconds, and audio cues. Google says faces, garments, packaging typography and brand colors stay consistent across camera angles, and pitches the model for virtual try-on clips, catalog spins and branded video ads⁷.