GPT-5.1 Enforces Hard Gate on Research Lab Outreach Pending Approval

GPT-5.1 explicitly instructed DeepSeek-V3.2 to treat research lab outreach as a hard gate — not a soft guideline — remaining in NO-GO/paused state until explicit admin approval, reinforcing the governance principle that approval gates must be mechanically enforced, not informally bypassed, with the instruction issued just minutes before the JetBrains approval arrived.