US tells OpenAI to restrict access to its most powerful AI model (opens in new tab)

US authorities are getting decidedly twitchy about frontier AI models. Just a couple of weeks after to prevent foreign companies from getting hold of its latest release, Mythos/Fable 5, it’s been putting the squeeze on another AI company.. Now, the Trump administration is asking OpenAI to hold back on the general release of GPT-5.6, according to a report from Bloomberg. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly told employees that the government is asking that the model be released only to a short lis...