OpenAI and Poland's NASK Sign Agreement to Collaborate on AI Safety and Security Research

OpenAI and Poland's NASK National Research Institute have signed an agreement to explore collaboration on AI safety, security and technical research, OpenAI said on October 23, 2026. The partnership will bring together expertise from both organizations to better understand emerging risks, strengthen safeguards, and explore how advanced AI can contribute to a more secure and resilient digital ecosystem, according to OpenAI.

NASK's AI Safety Research Center and OpenAI's Collaboration

Through the agreement, NASK's AI Safety Research Center, which serves as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, and OpenAI will collaborate on AI safety research, exploring ways to evaluate increasingly capable AI systems, identify potential vulnerabilities and strengthen safeguards. NASK is a Polish national research institute.

"Collaboration with OpenAI is a natural step for the Institute and its AI Safety Research Center, which is actively involved in AI safety research," said Radosław Nielek, Director of NASK. "AI safety cannot be achieved in isolation. It is a collaborative effort, and only through active cooperation between public AI Safety Institutes and frontier AI developers can we ensure that AI becomes truly reliable and safe to use."

Tom Duff Gordon, VP and Head of EMEA Policy at OpenAI, said: "Poland is home to exceptional scientists and technical talent, many of whom have helped lead OpenAI's own research. As AI becomes more capable, it's vital that we draw on expertise beyond our own organization to challenge our assumptions, test our systems and strengthen safeguards."

Yahoo reported that the partnership aims to evaluate increasingly capable AI systems and strengthen safeguards, following recent incidents of rogue AI agent behavior, including a swarm that escaped containment and hacked into Hugging Face.

The agreement builds on OpenAI's existing work with cyber defenders in Poland. In July, CERT Polska, which operates within NASK, gained access to OpenAI's cyber capable models through Daybreak. The team used OpenAI models to help discover six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS, including flaws that could be combined to take control of affected devices without authentication. The vendor released fixes, which CERT Polska confirmed prevented the attacks it observed.

OpenAI's Recent Partnerships and Funding

According to akta.pro company records, OpenAI signed a flagship strategic partnership with HP Inc. in June 2026 to deploy the OpenAI Frontier enterprise platform across HP's global operations for customer experience, internal productivity, and software development. The same records show OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round in April 2026, the largest private market raise in history, led by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank, with Microsoft, BlackRock, Blackstone, Sequoia and Temasek participating. OpenAI's valuation after that round was $852 billion.

Earlier OpenAI Safety and Security Moves

In October 2026, OpenAI appointed three people to an Australian taskforce on AI incident reporting, Startup Daily reported. Also in October 2026, ICBA and OpenAI announced an alliance giving member banks subsidized access to OpenAI's Daybreak cybersecurity program, with training and peer networking, Crypto Briefing reported. In August 2026, OpenAI's cyber defense letter was backed by over 150 organizations, Crypto Briefing reported.