OpenAI to Phase In Access to GPT 5.6 per US Government Request

CoinFeed June 27 news, according to The Guardian, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an internal email that the new model GPT 5.6 will first be previewed to a small number of partners on a limited basis, with access eligibility during the preview period subject to "case-by-case customer approval" by the US federal government, and if the process goes smoothly, it will be more widely opened in a few weeks. Previously, Anthropic's Mythos model was banned from foreign access and taken offline by the US government due to its powerful hacking capabilities. The report notes that OpenAI's arrangement was made after consultations with the White House Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the US president has signed an executive order this month establishing a framework for voluntary federal review before the release of powerful AI models.