White House forces OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 rollout
The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy asked OpenAI to limit the GPT‑5.6 launch to a small group of vetted partners, approving access customer‑by‑customer during a preview phase. The move postpones a full public rollout for weeks and marks a new level of federal oversight for frontier AI models.