AnalysisPolicyJuly 9, 2026
Government approval process for frontier AI models remains opaque, experts say

OpenAI's Sol and Anthropic's Fable were approved for public release, but the government's decision-making process is unclear to researchers and industry insiders. Mina Narayanan of Georgetown's CSET and former Trump advisor Dean W. Ball both note a lack of visibility into requirements.
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