GPT-5.6 clears its government gate for full launch — Jul 10

OpenAI ended GPT-5.6 Sol's 12-day government-vetted preview with a full public launch, backed by 700,000 GPU-hours of jailbreak red-teaming and runtime classifiers that can halt an unsafe response mid-generation. The same week, Anthropic added former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to its oversight trust and invited the public to submit its hardest questions about AI, both labs building institutional legitimacy alongside the access-control machinery regulators are demanding. Elsewhere, Tencent stripped the last geographic restriction from its open Hy3 model, and an open-source project proved a 744-billion-parameter model can load on consumer hardware, even if it runs too slowly to actually use.