🚨 BREAKING: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WILL NOW DECIDE WHO GETS ACCESS TO GPT-5.6

OpenAI is releasing its next flagship model only as a limited preview to a small group of partners.. and according to a staff memo from Sam Altman, federal officials will be "approving access customer by customer during this preview period."
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned Altman not to launch without other agencies signing off first, and wanted every relevant arm of the government to test and approve the model before it ships.
So the company didn't set this rollout. Washington did.
Altman told staff this is "not our preferred long term model," and that OpenAI will work toward a more sustainable approach for future releases.. which is the careful way of saying nobody wanted it to go like this.
This follows the federal directive that forced Anthropic to pull its most advanced models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, weeks earlier.
There is still no public framework, no published criteria, no law on the books. Just a model that can't ship until the government clears each customer one by one.
That isn't voluntary review anymore. That's a licensing regime that nobody passed.
ITS HAPPENING!!!