US leading artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Anthropic have released new AI models to select customers approved by the US President Donald Trump's administration, citing security concerns.
About 100 companies and federal agencies were approved by the Trump administration's Commerce Department to receive their new AI models, media reported on Friday.
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it was restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.6 Sol, at the request of the Trump administration.
Also, Anthropic announced that it disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with the US government's export control directive, citing "national security authorities."
The unprecedented move has been described as the Trump administration's vetting of AI products for cybersecurity risks.
"We don't believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default," OpenAI said in a statement.
Hopefully, it's a temporary step on the "path to broader availability in the coming weeks."
Trump signed an executive order on AI oversight earlier this month.
The presidential decree establishes a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to 30 days before their public release.
AI tools produced by US artificial intelligence companies are used by the US military for two purposes: "Mass domestic surveillance" and "Fully autonomous weapons."
The deadly US military’s AI-assisted attacks on Iranian targets during the US-Israeli aggression earlier this year left thousands of casualties.
During the course of the war, American and Israeli forces regularly relied on AI systems developed by artificial intelligence companies to select targets.
The US military used Anthropic’s AI, Palantir, to target an Iranian elementary school in Minab with Tomahawk missiles on the first day of the US-Israeli aggression against Iran on February 28, killing more than 170 students and teachers.
On the same day, US forces used similar methods to strike a sports hall in Lamerd City in southern Iran, killing 24 innocent civilians.
At least 3,500 civilians were martyred during the 40-day unprovoked US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and top-ranking Iranian officials and military commanders, were among the victims martyred in the US-Israeli terror war.