Trump Administration Vets Access to Most Powerful AI Models

The Trump administration has established a first-of-its-kind government vetting regime for frontier AI models. It is restricting OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol to a narrow list of approved partners while partially lifting restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 for more than 100 U.S. companies and government agencies, including their non-American employees.

Anthropic had previously disabled access to both its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with a government directive citing national security authorities. The dual moves signal that Washington now treats the most capable AI systems as strategic assets requiring active gatekeeping — not just export controls on hardware. Analysts note that AI models have reached a capability threshold where their deployment carries real political consequences, and that managing those consequences will likely require coordinated industry-wide responses rather than company-by-company negotiations.