One of the biggest unknowns in AI security is also one of the most consequential: China's progress toward frontier AI models. Why it matters: The world is only months away from AI models dramatically accelerating cyber threats, Five Eyes leaders warned Monday. - Yet preparations are being slowed by Washington infighting and industry-wide confusion over how to measure AI risk. Driving the news: A new Chinese open-source model , GLM-5.2, rocked the internet this weekend with its ability to match the agentic capabilities of models like Anthropic's Opus 4.8 — garnering praise from Silicon Valley elites and raising questions about just how quickly China will close the gap. - At the same time, the Trump administration is still debating…
OpenAI rolled out a cybersecurity model that rivals the capabilities of Mythos — without nearly as much fanfare or political pushback as Anthropic received. Why it matters: The seemingly straightforward model release raises questions about what actually triggered the Trump administration's concerns about Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Catch up quick: OpenAI debuted an update to GPT-5.5-Cyber on Monday as part of a slew of announcements aimed at deepening its work with cybersecurity companies and researchers. Yes, but: The new GPT-5.5-Cyber achieved an 85.6% score in CyberGym, an internal benchmark that measures whether an AI agent can reproduce known software vulnerabilities. - In comparison, Mythos 5 scored 83.8% on the same…
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