UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion

UK banks have been offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, even as they remain excluded from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion, which inducted 150 new organizations, including the first outside the US. The move highlights a growing divide in AI access for financial institutions, with OpenAI extending its latest model to UK lenders while Anthropic restricts its cyber-focused initiative to a select group.

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