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The Trump administration has formally asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its GPT-5.6 model, requesting limited distribution so that the government can vet users before the system reaches wider availability.
The US Treasury, the Commerce Department, and other federal offices are behind the request — a coordinated signal that multiple arms of the executive branch now want oversight of who receives access to frontier AI systems at launch.
What the Government Is Asking For The core ask is sequenced distribution: rather than a broad public rollout, GPT-5.6 would go out in controlled waves, with federal agencies in a position to review the user base.
The request comes from several departments simultaneously, which suggests this is a whole-of-government posture rather than a single agency's initiative.
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