OpenAI extends Daybreak cyber program to Ukraine
OpenAI is opening its Daybreak cyber-defense program to Ukraine's government, extending frontier AI vulnerability-finding tools to a state facing roughly 6,000 cyber incidents a year against civilian infrastructure.
OpenAI said Tuesday it will give Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its program that provides cyber defenders with advanced AI models for authorized security work — reviewing older software, investigating suspicious activity, validating vulnerabilities and testing fixes.
Working with Ukraine's Ministry of Digital Transformation, OpenAI said it will provide Ukrainian teams with tools to identify software vulnerabilities and develop and test fixes more quickly. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly by Dmytro Kushneruk, Ukraine's Consul General in San Francisco, and Sasha Baker, OpenAI's Head of National Security Policy.
The context is volume: CERT-UA, Ukraine's national cyber incident response team, handled nearly 6,000 cyber incidents in 2025, including attacks on hospital systems, the energy sector and telecommunications, alongside continued physical strikes on infrastructure.
Ukraine joins an existing roster. OpenAI has already provided cyber model access to defenders in France, Germany, Poland and other European countries. ENISA, the EU's cyber agency, used the models to identify vulnerabilities in software used across EU institutions, all since fixed. CERT Polska used them to help discover six vulnerabilities in third-party router software; the vendor has shipped fixes that CERT Polska confirms prevent the attacks it observed.
"Ukraine is already on the front line, and its defenders need support now," OpenAI said in the announcement.
The company did not disclose which models Daybreak provides, the scale or duration of the Ukraine access, how it is funded, or what safeguards govern use of offensive-capable tooling by a government at war.