Trump’s AI power grab

Who gets access to new OpenAI’s new ChatGPT model? Trump wants to decide.

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Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is putting itself in charge of rolling out a new ChatGPT model.

What’s happening? On Friday, ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced plans to launch several new AI models, including one called GPT-5.6 Sol, “in the coming weeks.” But at the request of the Trump administration, not everyone will get access at first: Instead, the government will get to sign off on which companies can use the new model, which OpenAI said is its most powerful yet.

What’s the context? This is the second big AI move the Trump administration has made recently. Earlier in June, it essentially banned Anthropic’s powerful new “frontier” AI model........

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