OpenAI is stepping up its game by partnering with top European firms such as Deutsche Telekom, BBVA, and Telefonica to leverage its sophisticated AI models. This initiative aims to empower these organizations with tools to bolster their defenses against emerging cyber threats.

European cyber and AI authorities in past weeks failed to gain access to superhacking AI, causing anxiety among officials.

OpenAI has offered the EU Commission direct access to its new GPT-5.5 Cyber model for security review, with talks already underway. Anthropic is proving harder to pin down: after…