The US Government Blocked GPT-5
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For weeks, the most powerful AI in America sat behind a government hold The first federal hold on a frontier model release Commerce Department examiners, OpenAI engineers stationed in D.C. What exactly worried the White House Last month: restrictions and a temporary export ban Axios breaks it — the restrictions are lifted July 9: GPT-5.6 goes public — carefully Two readings of the same eighteen days Washington now sits between the lab and the launch Every day on hold is a day competitors keep moving Restrictions push builders toward models nobody can hold The test results remain sealed Remember July 2026 — the month the frontier got a checkpoint
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