Tag: gpt-5.5

  • OpenAI Opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to Vetted Defenders via Trusted Access

    OpenAI Opens GPT-5.5-Cyber to Vetted Defenders via Trusted Access

    OpenAI released GPT‑5.5‑Cyber on May 7, 2026 — a limited-preview variant of its flagship model with relaxed safety guardrails for vetted cybersecurity defenders. The launch expands OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, a tiered access framework that loosens the model’s refusal boundary for verified security professionals working on authorized defensive tasks, while still blocking […]

  • OpenAI Traces ChatGPT’s Goblin Habit to a Stray RL Reward Signal

    OpenAI Traces ChatGPT’s Goblin Habit to a Stray RL Reward Signal

    OpenAI on April 29, 2026 published a post-mortem explaining why its recent ChatGPT models had developed a strange habit of sprinkling goblins, gremlins, and other small creatures into their answers. The cause traces back to reward signals in the “Nerdy” personality during reinforcement learning. Use of “goblin” in ChatGPT rose 175% after the GPT‑5.1 launch, […]

  • OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5: Agentic Coding Ceiling Tops 14 Benchmarks

    OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5: Agentic Coding Ceiling Tops 14 Benchmarks

    OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, just six weeks after GPT-5.4, positioning the model as a major step toward agentic computing. The company claims state-of-the-art results across 14 benchmarks, including 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro, with the model now rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers of ChatGPT […]