2026.02.06

OpenAI introduced Trusted Access for Cyber, an identity and trust-based access layer for higher-risk security use cases. The pilot pairs stronger safeguards with paths for defenders to get less-friction access to capable models.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, positioning its flagship model for broader knowledge work alongside agentic coding. The company highlights stronger first-pass outputs for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations while keeping predecessor-level pricing.