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ai morning #13 — the white house is now approving ai customers one by one
A frontier-model gating pattern is now confirmed: Anthropic first, OpenAI second. Both pushed to restrict access under government pressure. The mechanism is customer-by-customer approval. No criteria, no timeline, no announcement.
Marcus walks through what happened, why one analyst called the White House out by name for creating a de facto licensing regime, and what it means for builders who aren't pre-approved US partners.
In this episode:
00:00 Intro
01:35 White House gates GPT-5.6 customer by — The second frontier lab in two weeks told to restrict access — no criteria, no timeline, no…
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