The US now has a de facto model licensing system

OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5.6, is waiting for government approval.

Ever since the Trump Administration forced Anthropic to pull its two most powerful models from the market on June 12, a big question has been whether Anthropic was being singled out for special treatment — or whether this would become a new policy for the AI industry as a whole. We got an answer on Thursday, when The Information reported that OpenAI was…