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The government approved the new GPT 5.6 model.

Or did it?

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megam McCardi Carino. Open AI is finally rolling out its advanced GPT 5.6 model after delays for testing with the U.S.

government.

But the White House then claimed the review was voluntary.

The company didn't actually need its approval.

We'll dig into it on today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review.

Plus, why China is considering limiting access to its top models from foreign competitors,

and META's new AI image generator is generating

privacy concerns. But first, back to what happened between the White House and OpenAI ahead of

its latest model release. Maria Curie is here to explain. She's a tech policy reporter at Axios.

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