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AI Giants Face Government Gatekeeping

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 is hitting a bureaucratic snag—government approval now required on a case-by-case basis, thanks to talks with top U.S. tech policy offices. This follows Anthropic’s recent forced shutdown of two models after a Commerce Department directive banning foreign access, a move Anthropic slammed as legally vague. Both companies, eyeing IPOs, are now racing against a new reality: frontier AI is being treated as national security assets, requiring agency-by-agency clearance before public release. The market’s reaction? Watch this space. Support the show:Get a discount at…

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