On Monday, OpenAI announced something called “Daybreak,” a project that CEO Sam Altman says is meant to “accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software.“

OpenAI is launching Daybreak, our effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software.

AI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we'd like to start working with as many companies as possible now to help them continuously secure themselves.

— Sam Altman (@sama) May 11, 2026

The OpenAI blog post announcing Daybreak doesn’t mention the word “project” at all, perhaps to make readers slightly less apt to compare it to Anthropic’s Project Glasswing , but watch this: this sounds mighty similar to Anthropic’s Project Glasswing.…