The Trump administration has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 in limited preview form to select enterprise customers, with the government approving access on a case-by-case basis. The move is described as more favorable than the export-control directive imposed on Anthropic earlier this month and highlights uneven federal oversight of frontier AI models.
Officials applied an export control measure barring "foreign nationals" from using the systems, a rule that extended even to non-U.S. citizen employees of the company itself.
The contrasting treatment of the two labs illustrates how federal oversight of advanced systems is unfolding in an inconsistent manner.
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