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TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Limits Access to Newest Models Following Security Concerns From White House

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: two lawmakers call for federal probe into Polymarket over deceptive advertising. And Trump threatens 100% tariffs on European countries that impose new digital services taxes on U.S. tech companies. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

0:05.0

Infliction is killing me!

0:08.0

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

0:12.0

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

0:15.0

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

0:18.0

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

0:25.1

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

0:29.1

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

0:31.2

Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

0:39.0

Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute, for Friday, June 26th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:46.6

OpenAI is limiting access to its GPT 5.6 models to a small government-approved group following discussions with the Trump administration. But the company warned that it disagrees with the recent

0:52.2

trend of the White House restricting industry

0:54.4

activity on national security grounds. OpenAI said it hopes to make GPT 5.6 generally available in the

1:01.6

coming weeks. The Trump administration recently banned foreign access to two models by rival Anthropic.

1:08.0

The models have been shut down for two weeks while both sides continue

1:11.5

discussions to address the security concerns. News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal,

1:16.4

has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. We exclusively report that two senators are

1:22.9

calling for regulators to probe polymarket over deceptive advertising. The move comes after a journal investigation

1:30.1

found Polymarket paid creators to stage trades on fake websites and paid to make videos go viral in the U.S.

1:38.0

Republican Senator John Curtis and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff sent a letter yesterday to the

1:43.3

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

1:44.8

chairman asking whether the CFTC is investigating Polly Market. The CFTC, which previously

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