Overseas employees at US-based companies or entities will also have access to the new models.

The Trump administration is getting twitchy about the power of the new models.

This marks the first time the U.S. government has preemptively asked a U.S. AI company to restrict the launch of a model before release.

penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

OpenAI said the GPT-5.6 technology is first rolling out to select “trusted partners” at the request of the U.S. government.

At the request of the U.S. government, OpenAI will initially make its new GPT-5.6 model available only to select partners, with access approved on a "customer by customer" basis.…

The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block foreign access to its top AI models, sending decentralized AI tokens surging and opening the door for

The U.S. government wants to ensure that its latest, most advanced AI tools can't be used against it.

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

OpenAI launched Sol, its most powerful model, to about 20 partners approved by Washington under Trump's AI executive order. Broad access comes later.

The company agreed to limit the rollout after a request from the Trump administration, which cited national security concerns.

June 26 : OpenAI said on Friday it was delaying a full public launch of GPT‑5.6 at the U.S. government's request, limiting the AI model's initial access to a small group of vetted…

OpenAI said it previewed the new models' capabilities with the government ahead of the launch.

The White House asked OpenAI to delay the rollout of its GPT-5.6 AI models two weeks after Anthropic had to take its most advanced AI models offline.

OpenAI introduced the GPT-5.6 family of AI models on Friday, but only limited users can access them for now thanks to the U.S. government.

Company says broader access could begin as early as next week

OpenAI said they were complying as part of its agreement with the Department of Defense, which allows the department to use its AI models.

Executive Order 14409 requires federal cybersecurity reviews before companies can access OpenAI's GPT-5.6, limiting initial rollout to approved partners.

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber…

Overseas employees at US-based companies or entities will also have access to the new models.

It is the second time in a month that a frontier lab's most powerful model has been held back from general release over fears about cyber capabilities.