OpenAI Courts Banks in Trusted Access for Cyber Partner Push

Bank of America, Citi and Goldman Anchor Partner Cohort for OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • April 16, 2026

OpenAI unveiled a partner list for its Trusted Access for Cyber program that's more concentrated in financial services than the launch partners for Anthropic's Project Glasswing.

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Initial Trusted Access for Cyber partners include financial heavyweights like Bank of America, Black Rock, BNY, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, none of which are piloting Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. Anthropic instead focused its initial defensive artificial intelligence efforts on tech and infrastructure giants including AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Google and Microsoft, none of which are today part of Trusted Access for Cyber.

Just four companies were announced as launch partners for both Claude Mythos Preview as well as OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber: Cisco, CrowdStrike, JPMorganChase and Nvidia. As for cyber vendors ...