After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too

After Sam Altman trash-talked Anthropic for gatekeeping its cybersecurity tool Mythos by only releasing it to select users, he confirmed that OpenAI would be doing the same with its competing tool, Cyber.

Altman remarked in a post on X on Thursday that OpenAI will begin rolling out GPT-5.5 Cyber “to critical cyber defenders” in the next few days. OpenAI has an application on its website where the public submit information about their credentials and planned employ To gain access.

Cyber can perform such tasks as penetration testing, vulnerability identification (and exploitation), and malware reverse engineering, the application implies. It’s intended to be a toolkit to help a organization find security holes and test defenses. The fear is that the kit could be misused by the terrible guys.

When Anthropic similarly restricted access to Mythos, Altman called the tactic fear-based marketing. Some critics also thought so, saying Anthropic’s rhetoric was overblown. Ironically, an unauthorized group reportedly managed to gain access to Mythos anyway.

OpenAI says it’s working to build Cyber more widely available by consulting with the U.S. government and identifying more users with legit cybersecurity credentials.

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