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HackerOne, a global pioneer in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), announces a partnership with OpenAI to make frontier GPT cyber models available in select H1 Platform products, H1 Code Security Audit, H1 Code, and H1 Remediation, to help teams find and fix vulnerabilities faster. GPT cyber models use is optional and enabled by the customer. The partnership addresses a growing challenge facing security leaders applying increasingly capable AI across the exposure management lifecycle to find vulnerabilities and exposures, validate which ones pose real risk, and help teams prioritise and remediate them. As frontier AI increases the speed and depth of discovery, the H1 Platform helps organizations turn that capability into measurable risk reduction. Exposure management lifecycle “AI is making complex attack paths increasingly discoverable, changing the risk calculation for every security leader,” said Kara Sprague, Chief Executive Officer at HackerOne. “Defenders have to assume that if an exposure exists, it will be found, and act before attackers do. That means building security programmes that continuously discover, validate, and eliminate risk, so organizations can move from reacting to threats to staying ahead of them.” Addressing that new risk requires connecting expanded discovery capabilities to the rest of the security lifecycle. “Frontier AI can significantly expand what defenders can discover, but findings must still be validated, prioritised, and translated into action,” said Nidhi Aggarwal, Chief Product Officer at HackerOne. “The H1 Platform can put frontier AI to work across the security lifecycle, finding and validating the exposures that pose real risk, tracing them to root cause, and giving teams a clear path to remediation.” Multi-model harness The H1 Platform multi-model harness can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models through the Daybreak Defense Network to broaden coverage, validate outputs, and trace findings to root cause. Security teams receive each finding with a developer-ready fix plan designed to cut overall time to remediate. Frontier cyber AI is one layer of coverage. An elite community of security researchers provides another, bringing creativity, contextual understanding, and real-world adversarial expertise to complex attack chains, business logic flaws, and novel exploitation paths. Together, frontier cyber AI and human expertise provide complementary layers of continuous security. Improving generative AI models HackerOne does not use or permit use of confidential researcher submissions or customer vulnerability data to train, fine-tune, or otherwise improve generative AI models. The partnership builds on HackerOne and OpenAI’s work to strengthen cyber defense. HackerOne recently signed OpenAI’s “A call for collective action on cyber defense,” an open letter from organizations around the world calling for collective action to expand access to advanced defensive capabilities, share practical security expertise, and accelerate verified fixes. HackerOne is also a launch partner in Patch the Planet, an OpenAI initiative focused on using AI-assisted security research and human expertise to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in critical open-source software. To learn how frontier cyber AI is transforming Continuous Threat Exposure Management, register for their upcoming webinar, Outpacing the Attacker, on Friday, September 11, 2026, at 18:30 BST.

Smartling, the AI-powered translation company, announces that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep industry expertise, delivery capabilities, and customer relationships while equipping them with resources, enablement, and support to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact. Scale AI solutions As an OpenAI Select Partner, Smartling will continue working with OpenAI to help organizations build, deploy, and scale AI solutions responsibly and effectively. This work will help organizations get more useful work from every token and stronger performance per dollar with GPT–5.6, while using ChatGPT Work to turn ambitious goals into finished work. Smartling brings deep expertise in enterprise localization across all industries, translating billions of words a year into more than 450 languages and locales. Alongside the partnership, Smartling has also launched a plugin for ChatGPT, available through OpenAI's plugin directory, giving customers the complete power of Smartling, including its governance, quality controls, and linguistic infrastructure, directly within ChatGPT. Through the plugin, customers can translate text instantly with Smartling, applying their own glossary, style guide, and terminology; search and manage translation jobs; raise and resolve quality issues between reviewers and linguists; and pull word count and workflow reports, all without leaving the conversation. Most successful enterprises "The most successful enterprises in the world today are focused on outcomes delivered by AI solutions," said Bryan Murphy, CEO of Smartling. "This partnership brings together OpenAI's frontier AI and Smartling's expertise—transforming enterprises' ability to deliver quality global experiences at AI speed. Now, you can get the full power of Smartling, right inside ChatGPT: get an on brand translation, check a job's status, and resolve a quality flag, no tab switching required. The opportunity isn't simply faster translation. It's about helping companies dramatically accelerate how they enter markets, reach customers, and grow around the world." AI-powered translation Smartling supports organizations across every major industry with AI-powered translation, human linguist review, and workflow automation for the full range of content teams manage, from websites and apps to support content and marketing. Its work includes taking Marriott International's training content from 7 languages to 38 while trimming translation costs by 40%, and helping Pinterest reach 100 million people in 31 languages, cutting its time-to-market by 83%. Through the partnership, Smartling will continue expanding the use of OpenAI models across its LanguageAI platform, applying advances to translation quality, automation, and multilingual workflows. The goal: make it possible for enterprises to operate globally with the speed of AI without sacrificing the quality, brand integrity, governance, and control global businesses require.

OpenAI has announced a series of enhanced safety measures designed for under 18’s using ChatGPT to introduce controls that limit how “human” the chatbot can appear amid growing concerns about the use of AI among children. Those with the new teen account can disable voice responses to ensure the tool is understood as AI rather than a person. OpenAI is also introducing reminders for young people to take a break when using the tool to prompt healthier usage patterns. Reinforcing real-world relationships OpenAI has said the update was not triggered by any single incident but the update comes following a wider concern about people believing AI systems to be sentient with the company reinforcing protections that should ‘reflect developmental stage, reinforce real-world relationships and support healthier use over time.’ Teen accounts will become a default for anyone who identifies as under 18 during sign up, as well as for users OpenAI determines to be minors. Children under 13 remain unable to use the product. Heather Barnhart, Senior Digital Forensic Expert at Cellebrite and SANS DFIR Curriculum lead commented: “Technology policy makers are up against what could be the greatest generation in tech. AI adoption is being introduced across all sectors and the children who understand how AI works and how to use it responsibly will be at an advantage as AI increasingly becomes a life skill. With this in mind, regulation should prioritise educating children on how to use it safely and what potential red flags to look out for.” Providing direct answers “Parents, educators and social media companies need to take an active role in guiding children on use. This gets at the larger issue, which is parents having open conversations about the dangers that lurk online - and having concrete guardrails on what their kids are doing and how they’re interacting with technology that is having an active role in shaping every sector. With education and healthy engagement, families can help their children navigate the online world, responsibly and safely.” As part of this, OpenAI is also expanding its Study Mode which was launched last year to help students work through problems without providing direct answers and set specific hours where Study Mode will automatically activate. OpenAI has reported nine out of 10 of its younger users use it to help them with learning.