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VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

medtrailofbitsPublished 2026-08-26

<p>As part of <a href="https://trailofbits.com/patch-the-planet">Patch the Planet</a>, we received preview access to <a href="https://openai.com/index/expanding-daybreak-as-the-cyber-defense-window-narrows/">GPT 5.6-Cyber</a> with a simple task: evaluate its cyber capabilities. <a href="https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/">Recent events</a> inspired me to give

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Original source: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/