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OpenAI announced Friday it will postpone the public rollout of its next‑generation GPT‑5.6 models at the request of the White House. The company said the delay will allow it to share the new models only with a small, government‑approved group of customers before expanding access. OpenAI highlighted three variants—Sol, Terra and Luna—and stressed that the step is temporary while it works with the administration on a cybersecurity framework tied to a recent executive order.Weiterlesen

OpenAI rolled out the GPT‑5.6 model suite on Friday, introducing three variants—Sol, Terra and Luna—just hours after the company agreed to stagger the release at the request of the Trump administration. Sol, the flagship, costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens; Terra is priced at half that rate and Luna even lower. The launch emphasizes safety, with the models trained to reject prohibited cyber assistance and equipped with an expanded safety stack. The preview will be monitored by the administration, which will grant access case‑by‑case, while OpenAI aims for broader availability in the coming weeks.Weiterlesen

OpenAI has begun a limited preview of Sol, its most powerful AI model, granting access to roughly 20 partners whose participation was individually approved by the U.S. government. The move fulfills a request from the Trump administration to stagger the rollout under the new AI executive order, marking the first time a frontier model has been released through a government‑managed access list. Sol leads a three‑tier series that also includes Terra and Luna, and it is available on Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI says the arrangement is a temporary test of the voluntary framework and does not intend it to become the norm.Weiterlesen

OpenAI announced the hiring of Prabhjeet Singh, the former president of Uber India and South Asia, as its inaugural managing director for the country. Singh will join the AI firm in September and report to Kiran Mani, the Asia Pacific managing director. The move signals OpenAI’s push to deepen its footprint in what it calls its second‑largest market after the United States, expanding responsibilities that span consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement and operations.Weiterlesen

OpenAI announced Friday that it will restrict access to its newest GPT‑5.6 family of models to a small group of trusted partners following a request from the U.S. government. The rollout, which includes the flagship Sol model along with Terra and Luna variants, is being held back under the Trump administration’s new executive order that asks AI firms to submit advanced systems for review before public release. OpenAI called the move a short‑term step, emphasizing that it does not see such government access as a long‑term norm, while pledging to expand availability in the coming weeks.Weiterlesen

The U.S. government is tightening control over advanced AI releases, moving OpenAI’s upcoming GPT‑5.6 and Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models into a customer‑by‑customer preview. Officials say the step is meant to ensure safety, but the move could delay commercial rollouts and strain AI firms’ finances at a critical growth stage. Industry observers warn the new approval process may slow model development, impact data‑center investments, and reshape competition among leading labs.Weiterlesen

A new report in The Information, citing two former xAI employees, says that more than half of the traffic to the company’s Grok chatbot comes from users seeking pornographic or other adult material. The finding reveals that many customers are routing NSFW requests through Grok’s cheaper coding model, boosting revenue from illicit content that was not disclosed in the firm’s IPO filings. Engineers have struggled to balance the demand for explicit chats with safeguards against child sexual abuse material, while the company set aside $530 million to cover potential legal costs.Weiterlesen

OpenAI will roll out its upcoming ChatGPT 5.6 model behind a government‑screened gate, allowing only customers cleared by federal officials during a preview phase. A staff memo from CEO Sam Altman says access will be approved case‑by‑case, with a broader release expected weeks later. The move follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump that urges AI firms to submit powerful models for a voluntary federal review, and comes after Anthropic halted two models under a similar directive.Weiterlesen

OpenAI announced it will postpone the full release of its next model, GPT-5.6, following a request from the Trump administration. The company plans a limited preview for a select group of enterprise customers, with the government reviewing each access request individually. The move contrasts with a stricter directive given to rival Anthropic, which must suspend foreign‑national access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models. Industry observers say the decision signals a shift toward tighter U.S. AI oversight despite earlier promises of a fast‑track approach.Weiterlesen

San Francisco‑based Patronus AI announced a $50 million Series B round led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $70 million. The startup, founded by former Meta researchers Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian, builds simulated digital environments that stress‑test AI agents on complex, real‑world tasks. With revenue up fifteenfold in the past year, the company aims to expand its digital‑world models for software engineering, finance and beyond, giving AI labs a reliable way to verify agent performance before deployment.Weiterlesen

OpenAI will initially share its latest language model, GPT 5.6, only with a handful of trusted partners after the Trump administration urged a cautious rollout. Officials from the Office of the National Cyber Director and the Office of Science and Technology Policy met with CEO Sam Altman, who said the government will review access on a case‑by‑case basis. The move mirrors Anthropic’s earlier decision to keep its powerful Claude Mythos model under wraps, reflecting growing worries that advanced AI could be weaponized.Weiterlesen