The White House is advancing negotiations with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google on a voluntary framework governing the release of advanced AI models, with an announcement potentially coming within days. The talks stem from Executive Order 14409, signed in June, which established classified benchmarks and a 30-day pre-release review window for frontier models. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been personally approving customer access to models such as GPT-5.6, with OpenAI operating under self-described voluntary compliance and Anthropic under a binding export control order.
