How did the US government decide OpenAI's frontier model Sol was safe to release?

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

OpenAI is rolling out Sol, a frontier model on par with Anthropic's Fable, which the White House briefly banned. Mina Narayanan of Georgetown's CSET says she has no visibility into the government's review process. Anthropic mentioned building a jailbreak classifier and defense-in-depth, but the actual dialogue between the government and the labs remains opaque.

Why it matters: Policy transparency is a core AI governance issue, and the CSET researcher's admission of no access gives this a concrete hook. The deduction is that the article raises the question without revealing the actual review mechanism — no internal process details — so it lands at 78...