OpenAI agrees to Trump administration request to stagger GPT-5.6 release over cybersecurity concerns · Digg

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo

New w/ @leomschwartz @amir:

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

For the people saying this is a pause, or a victory for safety, it is not. This does not slow development in any way, it only slows the rate at which the labs can 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 models, not how fast they can train them. The gap between what is available to the public, and what the labs have internally, will steadily widen from this day forward. This actually makes no one happy. The old 'AGI has been developed internally' joke will absolutely come true now though, long before it is available to the public.

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

OpenAI is reportedly releasing GPT-5.6 only as a limited preview to a small group of partners. Via The Information

The reason, according to Sam Altman: the U.S. government asked it to.

Altman reportedly told staff that the government will be "approving access customer by customer" during the preview period, with a broader release potentially following a couple of weeks later.

This comes obvously after Anthropic took a similar path with Mythos, and after the White House forced Anthropic to withdraw Fable and Mythos over national security concerns.

However: Actually Trump’s AI executive order explicitly says the new model review process is supposed to be voluntary, not a government licensing or preclearance regime.

But in practice, frontier AI launches are starting to look very different.

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Teknium 🪽@Teknium

Getting a bit annoyed about this

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Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭@elder_plinius

“The Trump administration has requested OpenAI to delay the release of its upcoming GPT-5.6 model due to cybersecurity concerns.”

Is this the new normal?

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Lisan al Gaib@scaling01

it's over

starting with GPT-5.6 "the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer"

Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo

New w/ @leomschwartz @amir:

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

People are not getting how significant this news – The White House delaying GPT 5.6 – is.

Here’s the context and a suggestion.

Both @pmarca and @DavidSacks did everything in their power to keep the White House from meaningfully regulate AI.

About a month ago, sparked by Mythos, the White House realized that zero-regulation was an insane idea, and that some AI, sooner or later might pose massive risks.

What we have now is actually (in some ways) the worst of all possible worlds: a White House that de facto *is* regulating AI, but without transparency.

That leaves businesses and investors in doubt.

What we really need is a bipartisan committee—with transparent criteria and the judgements of independent scientists—and not just snap judgements from the White House.

Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Big Breaking News: White House asks OpenAI to delay GPT- 5.6.

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

Andrew is on point here. The article in The Information makes one thing very clear: all future frontier models will be distributed by the U.S. government only very slowly, and only after approval.

The moment when we essentially get immediate access to SOTA for practical use is probably over. But that by no means means development will slow down. It won’t. Access will simply become heavily restricted.

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

For the people saying this is a pause, or a victory for safety, it is not. This does not slow development in any way, it only slows the rate at which the labs can 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 models, not how fast they can train them. The gap between what is available to the public, and what the labs have internally, will steadily widen from this day forward. This actually makes no one happy. The old 'AGI has been developed internally' joke will absolutely come true now though, long before it is available to the public.

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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

Unfortunately regulatory capture has been achieved internally 😔

ℏεsam@Hesamation

Anthropic’s dream is starting to come true.

Governments will be tightening their grip on AI turning it into a gated privilege for approved citizens.

BUY GPUs LIKE YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT.

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Zephyr@zephyr_z9

Not a smart approach Will lead to ARR growth slowdown

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

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Beff (e/acc)@beffjezos

hmm this seems really suboptimal and will slow down American innovation

Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo

New w/ @leomschwartz @amir:

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.

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Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage

Today in "totally voluntary, not a licensing regime":

Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo

New w/ @leomschwartz @amir:

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.

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Jessica Lessin@Jessicalessin

Huge. If you thought it was just Anthropic...

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trump-administration-asks-openai-stagger-release-new-model-security-concerns?rc=hwneun

Also, I am in awe of @theinformation team that is breaking this caliber of high-level news non-stop.

@leomschwartz @steph_palazzolo @amir

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

That should say each customer, not each user. I mean, you could interpret it either way, but customer probably means corporation in this case. Unless it really is that crazy. I'm adding this so I don't get community noted.

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

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Bindu Reddy@bindureddy

Closed Source Is Delayed - Confirmed by The Information

> GPT 5.6 release delayed by US government > Fable 5 remains banned > all new models need to go through red tape

😲

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Nathan Lambert@natolambert

Horrible timeline. We should be getting transparency into why this is the case and how we plan for a world with an increasing number of models at this capability level and way stronger models in the near future.

Stephanie Palazzolo@steph_palazzolo

New w/ @leomschwartz @amir:

The Trump admin has asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6 over security concerns.

On Thursday, CEO Sam Altman told staff that the government will be approving access to GPT-5.6 customer by customer, a highly unusual approach.

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Paul Buchheit@paultoo

This is not great news for startups

It will be difficult to compete if we only ever have access to inferior models (and increases the risk of the big labs eating the whole market)

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus

Big Breaking News: White House asks OpenAI to delay GPT- 5.6.

Amir Efrati@amir

NEW: Trump admin asks OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6 release over cyber concerns. Will approve "access customer by customer during this preview period”

What a time we are in...

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

@TheZvi Restricted access while development continues at top speed and the gap slowly widens creates a lot of nightmare scenarios I don't even like thinking about. If people had any idea of the upper bound of capabilities, or believed any of this at all, they would be freaking out.

Zvi Mowshowitz@TheZvi

Our new AI policy is that the White House decides ad hoc, for whatever reasons it likes, who does and does not get access to frontier intelligence. This seems rather maximally terrible.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Feeling pretty good about this! I bet it's been ready for quite a while.

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

I want to make this prediction now so I can quote it later. Gemini Pro 3.5 and GPT-5.6 are both ready now, and both labs want to release them, but they are being held back for safety testing in a test flight of the new regulations in the forthcoming executive order.

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