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GPT-5.6 cleared after voluntary White House gate tests
Jul 9, 2026SOURCE: techtimes.com
SO WHAT
The window is still open, but the gatekeepers are learning to shape deployment without formal authority.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — went broadly live after 12 days behind a U.S. government review that was voluntary in law, not force. The signal is a narrow glimpse of who still sets the terms as the model frontier moves.
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