national-security

Twelve days after a US government review nobody can fully describe, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol went public on July 9. The executive order behind it bans mandatory preclearance in plain text — and the government ran one anyway. This is what happened to the frontier-release regime after the machinery got used a second time.

In eighteen days, Washington turned a model release into a licensed event. Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5 went dark on a secret Commerce letter, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 only to government-approved partners, and by July 1 the curbs lifted. The pre-clearance regime for frontier AI is no longer hypothetical.