OpenAI Launches Daybreak, a Defensive Cybersecurity Agent

OpenAI's new Daybreak tool scans code for vulnerabilities before attackers find them — arriving the same week Google disclosed the first AI-generated zero-day exploit in the wild.

OpenAI has released Daybreak, a frontier AI tool designed for cyber defense that focuses on proactively identifying software vulnerabilities, as @AlternativeTo and @MTSlive reported. The tool follows a similar trajectory to Anthropic's Claude Mythos initiative and arrives with built-in safeguards intended to prevent misuse for offensive purposes.

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