Altman says OpenAI made "many changes" to GPT-5.6 after talks with Trump administration officials.

In a July 9 CNBC interview he described a "collaborative back and forth" with Commerce Secretary Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Bessent, and changes to the models before wide release, after the government briefly limited the June 26 preview (CNBC). He called reports of a 5% US equity stake full of "inaccuracies." The signal for builders: frontier release timing and model behavior are now entangled with federal review. That's a new source of supply-side uncertainty in your dependency chain.