US Gov Now Gates AI Releases: GPT-5.6 in Limbo

The US government is now gating frontier AI releases.

Why this is suddenly the whole industry's problem

For most of the past few years, the story in AI was a rivalry: Anthropic versus OpenAI, one lab racing to out-ship the other.

How a customer-by-customer approval actually works

The mechanics here are unusual.

The deeper problem: nobody has defined the rules

It is reasonable for a government to test products before they reach the market.

What happens over the next 24 to 72 hours

The immediate question is GPT-5.6's preview timeline.

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