national-security

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol went public on July 9 after a 12-day US government review nobody can fully describe, a preclearance run under an executive order that bans mandatory preclearance in plain text, showing what the frontier-release regime has become on its second use.

In eighteen days, Washington turned a model release into a licensed event, as Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5 went dark on a secret Commerce letter and OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 only to government-approved partners before the curbs lifted on July 1.