OpenAI Cleared to Launch GPT-5.6 After US Government Review

OpenAI is preparing to publicly launch GPT-5.6 after receiving approval from the US government, following a delay tied to national-security concerns. The broad rollout of the Sol, Terra, and Luna variants came after additional testing and meetings with US Commerce Department officials — a notable precedent, showing frontier releases increasingly passing through a government review step before general availability. It marks one of the first visible cases of pre-launch federal coordination on a consumer AI model.