Report: US Government Asks OpenAI for Customer-by-Customer Approval on GPT-5.6

According to The Information, the Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its new frontier model, GPT-5.6, with the government approving access on a customer-by-customer basis during the preview period. CEO Sam Altman reportedly told staff that GPT-5.6 would ship as a limited preview to a small set of enterprise customers and partners, with the government approving each customer individually during that window. A broader release may be considered roughly a couple of weeks after the preview, though no official timeline has been published. The Verge has reported the details.