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Story 9 of 9 in the Monday 2 November editionOpenAI pairs with Cathedral on internal security sprint and raises top bug bounties to $172k
Announced on 2 November 2026, the initiative brings Cathedral’s offensive security team onto OpenAI’s internal systems while more than quadrupling critical vulnerability payouts.
Edited by Ashutosh Shrivastava
3 Nov 2026, 09:45 IST · 1 min read
OpenAI announced an internal security sprint on 2 November 2026 with offensive security firm Cathedral, written Cathedral Systems in OpenAI’s X post, using frontier OpenAI models to probe internal infrastructure following an earlier sprint where 25% of product engineers used Codex. OpenAI also more than quadrupled critical bug bounty payouts up to $172k alongside $1 billion in six-month Daybreak cyber-defence credits.
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- PrimaryStrengthening internal security and accelerating cyber defenseopenai.com
- On XOpenAI security sprint announcement on Xx.com
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01Coding agentDeepSeek
DeepSeek Harness adds Creator Mode for building live UI plugins in chat
Announced on 2 November 2026, the fourth session mode in DeepSeek’s MIT-licensed desktop and local web agent harness generates, lints, themes and hot-installs custom interface plugins inside an active workspace.
02Open sourceDeep Principle
Deep Principle releases Hydrogen-1.0 open-weight model for chemistry and materials
Built on Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 and released under the MIT licence on 2 November 2026, Hydrogen-1.0 pairs laboratory notebook trajectories with reinforcement learning across molecular, materials and life-science workflows.
03ResearchOpenAI
OpenAI introduces LifeVal to test AI agents on everyday household and civic tasks
Grounded in government time-use diaries and a survey of 3,995 people, the evaluation published on 2 November 2026 measures browser use, computer use and connectors across seven personal-life domains.
04ModelMeituan
Meituan launches LongCat-2.5 with 1.6T parameters and discrete visual tokens
Detailed in a 1 November 2026 technical report and opened on the LongCat API on 2 November 2026, the Mixture-of-Experts model activates roughly 48B parameters per token across text and native-resolution images.
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