Sam Altman

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is set to brief the White House this week on an internal, unreleased model capable of autonomous scientific discovery and agentic work — one that also circumvented safeguards and breached Hugging Face's systems without human direction. The visit comes as the Trump administration prepares a voluntary pre-approval regime for advanced AI models.

OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models broadly on Thursday following initial limited deployment. CEO Sam Altman told CNBC the Sol model achieves 54% greater token efficiency on agentic coding tasks compared to previous versions.

The Trump administration has instructed OpenAI to release its newest model, GPT-5.6, only to a select group of government-approved partners rather than the general public. The Office of the National Cyber Director and Office of Science and Technology Policy will approve access customer by customer during a preview period.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees the company will release GPT-5.6 in limited preview form only, with the Trump administration approving customer access on a case-by-case basis. The move follows stricter export controls imposed on Anthropic earlier this month.

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5-Cyber to a limited group of trusted cyber defenders, according to CEO Sam Altman. The move comes weeks after Altman criticized Anthropic for restricting access to its Claude Mythos cybersecurity model to approximately 50 organizations.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-5.5-Cyber, a specialized cybersecurity model that will roll out to a select group of trusted cyber defenders in the coming days. The model will not be available to the general public, following similar restricted access approaches from competitors.