OpenAI and Anthropic Face Same Government Bottleneck

The U.S. government is tightening control over frontier AI model releases, with OpenAI's GPT 5.6 facing a customer-by-customer approval process similar to the one that has kept Anthropic's Mythos in limited preview for months. The delays threaten the economic viability of costly new systems and could slow the broader data center buildout. The crisis has exposed a deeper problem: the government lacks clear criteria or capacity for evaluating AI models, yet real concerns around cybersecurity and biorisk exist. Experts argue the industry must stop treating regulation as a competitive weapon and instead pursue collective action to establish a workable release framework.