White House

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.

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.