The administration is hand-picking who runs which frontier model

On the same stated cyber rationale, the Commerce Department pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 offline, the White House cleared OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for a chosen list of companies, and a second Commerce letter reopened Mythos 5 to 100-plus named organizations — three models, three bespoke deals, no published rule. Capability, safeguards, and prior coordination don't explain who got which.