OpenAI expanded its Bio Bounty Program on July 9, 2026, making GPT-5.6 and future frontier models part of an ongoing private biosafety red-team effort and raising the top universal-jailbreak reward to $50,000. OpenAI says the program remains focused on jailbreaks that defeat predefined biology safeguards, with vetted applicants onboarded under NDA. The practitioner signal is that frontier-model safety is being treated more like vulnerability management: providers need scoped challenges, external researchers, and remediation paths after launch, not just one-time system-card claims. The change also preserves the original GPT-5.5 test window through July 27, so teams evaluating GPT-5.6 should watch whether live bounty findings lead to public safety updates or deployment constraints.
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