Trump Administration Seeks Limited Release Of OpenAI Model After Anthropic Shutdown

The Trump administration requested that OpenAI to stagger the release of its latest model for security concerns just weeks after Anthropic was told to suspend global access to two of its most capable artificial intelligence models.

Sam Altman’s GPT 5.6 was set to release next month when the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director and Office of Science and Technology Policy asked OpenAI to limit the rollout. The limit allows the government to work on a framework for evaluating the security of new AI models, according to Axios.

Altman has said that the government requested that the new model only be released to a list of 20 government trusted partners before making a wider push to the public, Bloomberg reported.

In June the government ordered for Anthropic to shut off global access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 to restrict foreign nationals inside and outside the United States from accessing the models due to national security concerns, according to the outlet.

An anonymous source told Axios that OpenAI had been working with the government on the new model release even before Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was revoked. The government is limiting the rollout because it may have capabilities like Anthropic’s Mythos 5.

OpenAI and the White House did not immediately respond to the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.