The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to limit the initial release of its GPT-5.6 model. According to reports from The Information and Axios, the rollout will be restricted to a small group of government-approved partners.
Federal officials are evaluating the model under a new testing framework. This follows a similar order earlier this month for Anthropic to suspend public access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models over national security concerns.
The request reflects the administration's focus on managing advanced AI capabilities. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have both previously called for government oversight of frontier AI systems.
Major AI developers including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have published governance proposals. These frameworks call for structured safety evaluations and independent reviews of high-risk models.