GPT-5.6 May Be Government-Gated: What It Means (and Why Systems Matter More Than Models)The script discusses reports from Axios and The Information claiming the Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6’s release, limiting access to government-approved partners during a preview period due to security and cybersecurity concerns, with two federal offices vetting and approving customers one by one and only a hoped-for wider rollout later. It links this to the “Fable 5” situation where a powerful model was taken down after a few days, suggesting a new reality where frontier US models may be delayed or never broadly released. The speaker weighs pros (safety and vetting) and cons (US competitiveness as Chinese open-weight models like GLM rapidly improve and remain widely available), then advises building workflows as model-agnostic systems so models can be swapped without disrupting work, and promotes an agent operating system offered via AI Profit Ballroom.00:00 GPT 5.6 Restricted00:52 Fable 5 Fallout01:19 Government Approval Queue03:31 Who Gets Access04:17 Global Competition Risk06:18 Build Model Agnostic Systems07:39 Automation Examples09:09 Agent OS Pitch10:01 Local Private Options10:42 Wrap Up and Outlook