The US government's new system for approving frontier AI models before public release is running — but operating as a black box with no published rules, leaving even the people inside AI labs clueless about how decisions are made.

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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is now rolling out to the public after spending two weeks locked behind a government-approved preview — landing the same week Anthropic's Fable 5 exited subscription plans after its own brief White House...