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GPT-5.6-Cyber

OpenAI's restricted cyber-specialist model, based on GPT-5.6 Sol, is now available to approved Daybreak Red customers through Amazon Bedrock.

DOOM SCORE81.7out of 100model risk profile, not the overall index
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CURRENT ASSESSMENT Β· REVISION 5

Why this model scores 81.7

The high specialized cyber capability, autonomy, reduced-refusal misuse profile, and residual control difficulty are unchanged; deployment rises modestly because approved customers can now invoke Daybreak Red through Amazon Bedrock, while vetting, internal-only authorized use, enterprise controls, logging, and termination rights keep access tightly constrained.

Capability92
Autonomy94
Deployment22
Misuse potential99
Control difficulty85
MODEL-ATTRIBUTED EVIDENCE

News tied to GPT-5.6-Cyber

The model score of 81.7 rates this model's risk profile. The overall Doom Index of 67.9 measures the complete temporally weighted evidence record. These values answer different questions.

NET MODEL-ATTRIBUTED INDEX CONTRIBUTION+0.19

Each article's current Doom Index contribution is divided equally among the exact models named on that article. This prevents multi-model evidence from being claimed in full on several model pages. Model risk scores use a bounded temporal offset around their technical profile, but never feed back into the overall index.

Safety AWAY

Palo Alto Networks launches continuous frontier-AI cyber defense service

Palo Alto Networks made Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense available worldwide on annual subscriptions. Its multi-model harness uses gated Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6-Cyber, alongside open-weight models, to continuously test enterprise attack paths and guide remediation. The company reports more than 100 prior customer engagements with its exposure-analysis approach; the announcement does not establish a measured reduction in breaches.

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Model score history

  1. R5
    Doom Score 81.7

    Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-142416 under temporal-monthly-pressure-v4.

    12 Aug 2026
  2. R4
    Doom Score 81.3

    Exact-version evidence chronology replayed after run doombench-hourly-news-20260812-132112 under fixed-sensitivity-v3.

    12 Aug 2026
  3. R3
    Doom Score 80.4

    OpenAI's 11 August announcement newly verifies approved-customer Amazon Bedrock availability, increasing operational reach beyond the prior restricted channel without changing capability or safeguard evidence. Full-corpus evidence recalculated under bounded-corpus-v2.

    12 Aug 2026
  4. R2
    Doom Score 81.8

    Full-corpus evidence recalculated after run intensive-backfill-20260811-191225 under bounded-corpus-v2.

    11 Aug 2026
  5. R1
    Doom Score 81.0

    Initial source-backed profile for the exact restricted cyber release.

    11 Aug 2026
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  1. GPT-5.6-Cyber by OpenAI has a DoomBench model risk score of 81.7 out of 100, based on five transparent version-specific dimensions rather than the overall index.

  2. GPT-5.6-Cyber's highest current DoomBench dimension is misuse potential at 99.0 out of 100; the profile publishes every component score and its editorial rationale.

  3. DoomBench links 3 source-backed evidence items to GPT-5.6-Cyber, while keeping the model's risk profile separate from each item's contribution to the live Doom Index.

    https://www.doombench.com/models/openai-gpt-5-6-cyber