US Asks OpenAI To Restrict ChatGPT-5.6 Access To Approved Partners – Report

The U.S. government has asked OpenAI to limit access to its upcoming GPT-5.6 model to a small number of government-approved partners because of the model’s advanced capabilities, CNN reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.
The request came on the heels of the Trump administration’s export control order on Anthropic, which forced the company to withdraw its most advanced models, Mythos and Fable, from public access over concerns about their cybersecurity capabilities.
According to the source, OpenAI and the administration consider GPT-5.6 to be comparable in capability to Anthropic’s Mythos model.
OpenAI agreed to restrict the model’s release, with CEO Sam Altman informin...