🚨The US government just became the gatekeeper of AI.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff this week that GPT-5.6 will not release publicly. Instead the government will approve access customer by customer during a limited preview period. The request came directly from the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
This is not an isolated event. It is a pattern.
June 2. Trump signs executive order establishing AI model review framework. Described as voluntary.
June 12. Government shuts down Anthropic's Fable 5 model entirely.
June 25. Government gates GPT-5.6 behind customer by customer approval.
Three moves. Thirteen days apart. Both frontier AI labs now operate under government model release approval.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick personally warned Altman not to launch GPT-5.6 without approval from other agencies. Altman told staff OpenAI does not view this as a sustainable long term model.
The word voluntary is doing less work every day.
Here is what markets need to understand.
You are now investing in AI companies where the government controls when and to whom they can sell their core product. OpenAI was targeting a 2027 IPO. That timeline just got significantly more complicated.
The AI race is no longer just between labs. It is between labs and governments.