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【OpenAI Opens Daybreak Cybersecurity Tool to Ukrainian Government】
OpenAI announced that it is making its AI vulnerability discovery tool, Daybreak, available to Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation to identify and remediate software vulnerabilities before Russian hackers find them. The announcement was made on Wednesday during the United Nations General Assembly by Dmytro Kushneruk, Ukraine's Consul General in San Francisco, and Sasha Baker, OpenAI's Head of National Security Policy. Daybreak runs on OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model and can scan legacy systems for weaknesses, validate whether suspected vulnerabilities are exploitable, and confirm before a patch is released whether it genuinely closes the vulnerability. OpenAI had previously made its models available to cyber agencies in France, Germany, and Poland. Poland's CERT Polska used them to identify 6 vulnerabilities in commercial router software, all of which have been remediated by the vendors. Ukraine's CERT-UA handled nearly 6000 cyberattacks in 2025, up 37% from 2024, with local governments and government agencies hit hardest. The access follows OpenAI's September 3 commitment to a $1 billion subsidy program, which it said would expand to “partner countries” within weeks. Jamie MacColl, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, told the BBC that Western companies can also obtain valuable intelligence from an active war zone.