I really wanted to go to last night’s launch event for the San Francisco Chronicle’s book on the Valkyries’ inaugural season, but went to Google’s holiday PR party instead.

🤖 Situational awareness: Time magazine named “the architects of AI” as 2025’s Person of the Year.

• Also breaking this morning: Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license hundreds of characters to Sora.

Today’s AI+ is 1,105 words, a 4-minute read.

1 big thing: New models could increase cyber risks

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios

OpenAI says the cyber capabilities of its frontier AI models are accelerating and warned yesterday that upcoming models are likely to pose a “high” risk, in a report shared first with Axios.

Why it matters: The models’ advances could significantly expand the number of people able to carry out cyberattacks.

Driving the news: OpenAI said it has already seen an increase in capabilities in recent releases, particularly as models are able to operate longer autonomously, paving the way for brute force attacks.

• The company notes that GPT-5 scored a 27% on a capture-the-flag exercise in August, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max was able to score 76% last month.
• “We expect that upcoming AI models will continue on this trajectory,” the company says in the report. “In preparation, we are planning and evaluating as though each new model could reach ‘high’ levels of cybersecurity capability as measured by our Preparedness Framework.”