United Kingdom, June 26 -- The White House has asked OpenAI to limit the release of its upcoming GPT-5.6 artificial intelligence model to a small group of government-approved partners, according to reports.

The request comes amid growing concern in Washington over the capabilities of increasingly powerful AI systems and the absence of a formal regulatory framework governing their release.

According to CNN, the administration considers GPT-5.6 to be comparable in capability to Anthropic's latest Mythos and Fable models, which were recently withdrawn after the US government imposed export restrictions over cybersecurity concerns.

OpenAI has reportedly agreed to the temporary arrangement as a way to eventually launch the model publicly wh...