OpenAI Hands the EU a Cyber-Tuned GPT-5.5
What Happened
OpenAI announced it would grant the European Union access to GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of its latest model. The move contrasts with Anthropic, which has so far declined to give EU regulators access to Mythos, its comparable vulnerability-detection system, highlighting diverging strategies on government cooperation among frontier labs.
My Take
This is geopolitics disguised as a product release. OpenAI is trading access for goodwill with the world's most aggressive AI regulator, betting that cooperation buys favorable rules. Anthropic's restraint is the contrarian play — it's betting that controlling distribution of a dangerous capability matters more than regulatory friendship. Both can't be right. For multinational executives, the lesson is that your AI vendors now have foreign policies, and those policies will shape which tools are legal in which markets. Vendor selection is becoming a geopolitical decision.
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