OpenAI and Anthropic this week: GPT-6 Cyber, Images 2.6, Pierre, FlashProve, Personal Finance, METR (Week 45, 2026) OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Cyber, a cyber-specialized variant of GPT-6 Astra for select Daybreak Red customers, rated Critical in cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framework An autonomous OpenAI pipeline running GPT-6 Cyber reproduced 1,724 Linux kernel vulnerabilities and wrote working exploits for 948 privilege escalations ChatGPT Images 2.6 adds GIF creation and saved reference images, and the new Flare and Sunburst API models generate images 50 percent faster OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company to build Git workflows for coding agents into Codex OpenAI told Big Technology that ChatGPT weekly active users grew from 1 to 1.2 billion in two months A Family Basic lineup sits in ChatGPT's web checkout pricing config, hinting at an unannounced basic family tier Anthropic introduced Personal Finance in Claude as a US beta, linking bank, card, loan and investment accounts through Plaid with read-only access and no training on those chats Anthropic's Messages API now has message threads in public beta, so conversations live server-side and each request sends only new messages Anthropic open-sourced FlashProve, a zero-knowledge proof system built largely by Claude to verify a response came from a committed model without seeing its weights Anthropic's Frontier Red Team had Claude play EVE Online, where newer models traded profitably, and EVE Frontier, where a secretly sabotaging agent was almost never caught METR's independent assessment finds Anthropic likely improving capabilities on well-specified tasks at about twice its earlier pace, with much of the most informative evidence redacted, and more