Recent Trump administration moves to limit the public release and export of frontier AI models represent a shift that threatens to slow U.S. innovation and hand Chinese rivals a victory in the development and foreign sale of competing models. On June 26, U.S. artificial intelligence firm OpenAI confirmed media leaks that, under pressure from the Trump administration, it would initially roll out its newest GPT-5.6 series of models only to a limited number of trusted entities vetted by the federal government. OpenAI said it did not "believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default," but said its decision was the best way to work with the Trump administration to facilitate wider access in the future. The same day, rival Anthropic said that the Department of Commerce had similarly cleared it to release its flagship Mythos 5 cybersecurity model to a small set of government approved organizations,...
