According to The Information, the White House told OpenAI it wants the company to release its next model in a limited fashion to a select group of close partners. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly told staff that the company's newest model, GPT 5.6, will be launched with the government approving access "customer by customer," followed by a broader launch a "couple of weeks" later. OpenAI competitor Anthropic recently had to pull its most powerful model, Fable 5, after Trump's administration intervened to keep the model out of foreign hands. GPT 5.6 is reportedly a "meaningful improvement" over GPT 5.5 in context window size and efficiency. Altman reportedly said in a memo that GPT 5.6 is not the company's preferred long term model, and that OpenAI will work with the government and others "to achieve a more sustainable approach for future releases."