Trump signs AI executive order seeking voluntary 30-day review after industry pushback

Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday designed to give the government a chance to review powerful AI models before they are released. The order asks certain AI companies to voluntarily submit their new models to the government for testing or evaluation 30 days before releasing the products to the public. A previous draft of the order had called for a voluntary review up to 90 days in advance, though AI industry insiders had pushed for something closer to a two-week window. Trump had been slated to sign the more demanding version of the order in late May, but delayed after industry pushback, including from venture capitalist and former White House AI czar David Sacks. The president said at the time that he didn't want to do anything to get in AI firms' way of leading against China. "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models," reads the order, published Tuesday. Trump had planned to sign the EO with a bevy of Silicon Valley's top CEOs in attendance, but ended up signing the current version privately. In addition to the voluntary governmental AI model review, the EO directs the Department of Justice to treat crimes like AI-assisted hacking and unauthorized access as a high-priority enforcement area. This isn't the president's first EO on AI. Last December, Trump signed an order directing the development of "one rulebook," or a national AI policy framework, intended to preempt state AI laws.

Trump's new AI executive order drastically shifts the administration's stance on the tech

I agree my information will be processed in accordance with the Scientific American and Springer Nature Limited Privacy Policy. We leverage third party services to both verify and deliver email. By providing your email address, you also consent to having the email address shared with third parties for those purposes. President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an executive order that seeks to give the U.S. government more oversight of "frontier" artificial intelligence (AI) models -- signaling a fundamental shift from the administration's previous hands-off approach to the technology. The order asks technology companies to voluntarily share new AI models with the government for up to 30 days before releasing the models more widely. Companies are also asked to collaborate with the administration to "select trusted partners" that will gain early access to the models to "promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The order also directs leadership of the U.S. Treasury, as well as the National Cyber Director, the Defense Department, the National Security Agency and the Homeland Security Department to work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to develop an "AI cybersecurity clearinghouse," which will collaborate with the tech industry and infrastructure operators such as power companies and hospital administrators to identify and fix AI software vulnerabilities. On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. The order's broad call to strengthen U.S. resilience to cyber threats and safeguard against potential rogue AI actors represents a major shift in the Trump administration's approach, which had been more laissez-faire compared to the previous Biden administration's push to make the AI industry more accountable and more geared toward safety, also on a voluntary basis. It's also remarkable given that Trump had just recently backed away from a previously proposed executive order on AI safety. That order was inspired in part by the release of Anthropic's model, Mythos, which the company itself said was too dangerous to be publicly released.

Trump's New AI Executive Order Has No Teeth and No Requirements

The order, intended to review artificial intelligence models that could pose risks to the US, is strictly voluntary. Under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic are being asked to submit advanced artificial intelligence models to the government for vetting on cybersecurity, confidentiality, "insider risk" and intellectual property protections. But as the executive order makes clear, AI companies are under no obligation to do much of anything. At the end of a section ordering the creation of a vetting process in which AI companies would submit their models 30 days ahead of release, it states: "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models." A White House representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Frontier models are cutting-edge AI models that could pose a major security risk, such as Anthropic's Mythos, which the company kept from public release due to cybersecurity concerns. US-based AI companies are in a race to train and release artificial intelligence models, especially amid competition from Chinese companies. But the rapid release cycle of new models has raised concerns that they aren't being properly tested or regulated before going public, particularly regarding their human impacts or potential use as hacking tools. The executive order also includes provisions for agencies such as the Pentagon and the US Department of the Treasury to beef up their cybersecurity defenses over the next 30 days. Over the next 60 days, agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency, are expected to create a framework for evaluating AI models, even though companies aren't required to submit them. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) The 'appearance' of oversight? Executive actions similar to this one were expected two weeks before the June 2 order, but the final version included several notable changes. According to CNN, the original draft called for a 90-day review period instead of 30 days. However, AI companies involved in shaping the order, including Anthropic, reportedly pushed back on the longer timeline. CNN also reported that a Department of Commerce Institute of Standards and Technology announcement last month related to AI companies sharing their AI models with the government has disappeared from the agency's website. Given the lack of enforcement provisions or mandatory requirements for AI companies, the executive order received a muted reaction. "Voluntary frameworks are not enough," Anthony Aguirre, CEO and president of the AI safety nonprofit Future of Life Institute, said in a statement emailed to CNET. "We need a mandatory government pre-deployment review process for the most powerful AI systems, allowing the government to block the release of systems that pose an unacceptable national security risk." The executive order doesn't make clear what happens if the government receives early access to an AI model and a significant problem is discovered. John Thickstun, assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University, told CNET that this lack of clarity makes it hard to understand what the executive order will achieve. "Without clearer answers to these questions, my read of this is that it creates some appearance of oversight while largely continuing the administration's hands-off approach to AI governance," Thickstun said.

Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they're released

Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The order says the US AI industry has succeeded in part "because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation," but that it also recognizes new AI capabilities come with security risks. Accordingly, it directs several federal agencies to come up with a framework to "assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models" before they're released to the public. Companies would have the discretion of whether to share their models with the government pre-release, but could get certain confidentiality protections if they choose to do so. It also requires the federal government to prepare cyber defenses for AI, especially for critical infrastructure. The order comes after Trump postponed at the last minute signing a previously planned executive order that he worried could "get in the way" of competing with China. While the earlier version would have allowed AI companies to voluntarily share their models 14 to 90 days before release, according to The New York Times, the current version asks companies to share their models up to 30 days before public release. Google, Microsoft, and xAI agreed last month to allow pre-release review by the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI). OpenAI and Anthropic had already agreed to share their models with CAISI back in 2024 under President Joe Biden as part of Biden's push for AI safety guardrails. But until recently, the Trump administration downplayed safety concerns and took a hands-off approach under former White House AI czar David Sacks. The order signed Tuesday explicitly says it shouldn't be taken as a form of mandatory licensing or preclearance. Still, it reflects some willingness of the Trump administration to employ oversight of AI companies. One factor in this shift may be Anthropic's limited April rollout of its powerful Mythos model, which the company said had flagged "thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser." Mythos also seemed to create an opening to thaw tensions between Anthropic and the administration, following its legal battle with the Pentagon over its use of AI for autonomous lethal weapons and mass surveillance. The newly signed order has so far garnered praise even from groups that have advocated against restrictions on state AI laws. "The White House is officially Mythos-pilled," Americans for Responsible Innovation President Brad Carson said in a statement, adding that the order shows the Trump administration is taking AI vulnerabilities seriously. Alliance for Secure AI CEO Brendan Steinhauser said his group is "pleased to see that the Trump administration is taking the risks of these models seriously," and both Steinhauser and Carson urged Congress to codify mandatory protections.

Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release -- voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify

The voluntary framework avoids mandatory licensing but gives the government a say in which firms get early access. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asks AI companies to give the federal government early access to their most capable models for up to 30 days before any wider release, a window trimmed from the 90 days written into a draft he walked away from last month. While it's a voluntary framework that creates no licensing or pre-clearance requirement, it tasks the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology with building a classified benchmark that decides which systems qualify as a "covered frontier model." The 30-day review only applies to models that meet the classified threshold, which the NSA will set in consultation with the National Cyber Director and CISA. Developers who opt in would open their models to agency review before the systems reach other trusted partners, and the order puts those same agencies in the room to help choose the partners. Section three states that nothing in it authorizes mandatory government licensing, pre-clearance, or permitting for new models, including frontier models. The order also directs the Treasury Department to stand up an "AI cybersecurity clearinghouse" that coordinates vulnerability scanning, validation, and patch distribution alongside AI firms and operators of critical infrastructure such as rural hospitals, community banks, and local utilities. Separate provisions steer federal grant money toward companies building AI vulnerability detection and widen the U.S. Tech Force's cybersecurity hiring pathways. In April, Anthropic's Claude Mythos preview identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities across major operating systems and web browsers, and the company has since grown its Project Glasswing early-access program for the model. It's clear that the order has come in response to Mythos and other increasingly powerful frontier models, with reports suggesting that the Trump administration had been weighing pre-release vetting since at least the spring, when officials briefed Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI on an order that an early, unsigned draft would have made mandatory. The trusted-partner provision of the order is likely to draw extensive criticism because ot places the government in the room when labs decide who gets first access to their strongest models. Speaking to The Register, Cato Institute policy analyst Juan Londoño said that such moves could "open the door to potential weaponization against companies that have any sort of conflict with the administration." This isn't a hypothetical, either; the Department of Defense labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk shortly before the Mythos preview shipped, a designation that bars defense contractors from using the company's technology, and Anthropic has sued to overturn it. That litigation remains unresolved. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News, or add us as a preferred source, to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds.

Trump's AI E-(I)-O could let feds pick winners and losers

After postponing a planned signing last month for an executive order addressing advanced cybersecurity AI models, President Trump has signed a largely similar version that's just as questionably effective. The EO, signed in a private ceremony on Tuesday, directs various government agencies to take steps to protect their systems and data, as well as those of agencies they support, from cyber threats, while also facilitating access to advanced AI models that could help agencies bolster their cybersecurity defenses. The order also directs the Treasury Department to establish an "AI cybersecurity clearinghouse" that works with the AI industry and critical infrastructure operators to coordinate and deconflict the use of advanced AI tools for software vulnerability scanning, vulnerability discovery and validation, and remediation and patching efforts. Additional provisions are included to direct federal grant programs toward companies developing AI vulnerability detections, and to expand the US Tech Force's Information Cybersecurity Specialist hiring and placement pathways. Those elements are pretty cut-and-dried, but it's the rest of the order that has raised eyebrows among policy experts who've weighed in on the order so far. Section three of the EO, Secure Frontier Model Deployment, is where the government's AI model pre-release review scheme is outlined, and it is also where the most substantial change in the order compared to the earlier May draft appears. The version signed Tuesday directs various agencies to work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a "voluntary framework" through which the federal government would get access to "covered frontier models" for up to 30 days before their planned release to "other trusted partners" in order for the agencies to review them for potential cybersecurity risks. The May draft included a 90-day review period; the reduction to 30 days appears to be the most significant change between the two versions. Along with the review period, section three of the order also asks federal agencies to "develop and maintain a classified benchmarking process to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of AI models," which would also be used to determine which AI models qualify as covered frontier models for the purpose of the order. The EO also asks that the voluntary framework enable AI companies to "collaborate with the Federal Government to select trusted partners that will have early access to covered frontier models," meaning that the Trump administration would effectively have a role in picking which companies get to participate in programs like Anthropic's Project Glasswing for its Claude Mythos Preview. Want early access? You'd better be on our side The Register was contacted by various policy analysts about the EO, and while all agreed some sort of rule was better than nothing, a number of them shared their concerns. "The White House executive order on frontier AI models, while imperfect, is a step in the right direction to prepare the nation for the release of advanced AI systems," Cato Institute policy analyst Juan Londoño said of the order. "The lack of clear specifications on which criteria should be used to determine what constitutes a 'covered frontier model,' and the government's involvement in decisions about which 'trusted partners' can access these advanced models, gives the executive a great deal of discretion," Londoño added. "This could open the door to potential weaponization against companies that have any sort of conflict with the administration." Former FTC chief technologist Neil Chilson likewise said that the order is better than the "current informal approach," but hopes Congress will take action to establish some actual rules. Gaps in the order, Chilson said, "could be used to pick winners and losers, or to give short-term national security concerns excessive weight at the expense of longer-term national security, economic growth, innovation, and other national interests." The Center for Democracy and Technology's VP of policy, Samir Jain, likewise said that the EO takes necessary steps to address risks to critical infrastructure, and like others, he praised the choice to make the framework non-mandatory. That trusted partners element, however, raised his hackles, too. "The EO should not become a mechanism for the Administration to punish companies for political or other arbitrary reasons, and so we will be closely monitoring the details of its implementation as they emerge," Jain said. The White House didn't respond to questions for this story. ®

OpenAI will let the US government review its AI models before release - Engadget

The company said it would comply with President Trump's (voluntary) AI executive order. Earlier this week Donald Trump put his Sharpie to a new executive order requiring government oversight of advanced AI models to ensure their safety. That order was reportedly delayed and watered down following pressure from the tech industry, with Trump himself saying he "didn't like certain aspects" of it. Now, OpenAI has said that it will comply with the order and allow regulators to assess its models' capabilities before they're released to the public. "It's quite right that democratic governments have a big role to play in how this technology is used and deployed," OpenAI's head of countries George Osborne told CNBC. "What we suggest to governments is they create powerful regulatory bodies, but with a lot of flexibility into how they will operate in the future." The original order, drafted in consultation with various stakeholders, balanced AI industry concerns with public safety. Companies would have been required to submit models 90 days before public release with voluntary participation. However, industry insiders like David Sacks and Elon Musk reportedly warned that the bill could lead to a chilling effect on AI tech. Trump and his advisors subsequently created a new, scaled-back order reducing the review time to just 30 days. It requests (not orders) that AI firms participate in a benchmarking process to assess advanced cyber capabilities of AI models and whether they should be designated a "covered frontier model," which could limit their distribution and sale. However, critics said the order fell short of rules needed to police potentially dangerous models. "This is underwhelming policy that mirrors the Trump administration's broader pattern of creating a wild west environment for AI development," said Rep. Don Beyer (D, VA), who co-leads an AI-focused lawmaker group.

OpenAI says it will comply with Trump's order requiring AI model reviews before release

OpenAI has confirmed it will comply with Donald Trump's executive order that asks AI companies to allow the federal government to assess their models' capabilities before they are released. George Osborne, the company's head of countries, told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal that the startup would sign up to the voluntary order. "It's quite right that democratic governments have a big role to play in how this technology is used and deployed," he said. Speaking on the sidelines of SXSW in London, Osborne said the company takes its responsibilities "very seriously", adding: "As this leading frontier lab with these very, very powerful and capable AI models, and we don't wait to be asked. "We proactively suggested ways that governments can keep a track on safety and security issues, not just in the U.S., but more broadly." The order, which Trump signed on Tuesday, asks for access to AI models 30 days before their release. It requests companies take part in a benchmarking process to assess the "advanced cyber capabilities of AI models and determine the threshold at which an AI model should be designated a 'covered frontier model'". Osborne, who was the U.K.'s foreign minister from 2010 to 2016, said that "governments are going to have to be smart" over how they regulate the space. He added: "What we suggest to governments is they create powerful regulatory bodies, but with a lot of flexibility into how they will operate in the future."

Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for national security risks

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Tuesday, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America's edge on AI technology. The order establishes a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release. The government will be able to work with trusted partners "that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure," the order says. It was not immediately clear to what extent the order differed from the one he declined to sign on May 21. Trump canceled an Oval Office event with tech industry executives last month because he did not like what he saw in the earlier version of the order's text. "We're leading China, we're leading everybody, and I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead," Trump told reporters at the time. That directive was characterized as a voluntary collaboration with participating U.S.-based tech companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.

Does Donald Trump Love or Hate AI?

For months now, the White House has hinted that it may try to rein in the AI industry. Just two weeks ago, the nation's top tech executives -- including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei -- were invited to attend a ceremony for the signing of a long-anticipated executive order on AI. But just hours before the ceremony, Donald Trump scrapped it. America is leading the world in the AI race, the president told reporters at the time, "and I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead." Apparently, Trump has changed his mind again. Earlier today, the president signed an executive order that will create a process for top AI companies to voluntarily share certain upcoming models with the government for safety testing up to one month before wider release. OpenAI, Anthropic, and the like will also be asked to work with the government to shore up federal, state, and local cyberdefenses. The White House spokesperson Liz Huston told us that the policy reflects a "common-sense approach of collaborating with industry to balance innovation and security." The order itself is relatively toothless: Even before today, the major AI firms already had agreements in place that allowed the government to preemptively test their models for safety risks. The new rule "effectively formalizes what has already been happening between the US government and the leading AI companies," Daniel Remler, an AI expert at the Center for a New American Security, told us. But the executive order is meaningful in that the president is doing something -- anything -- about AI. At the start of his second term, Trump signaled to tech companies that he would stay out of the way. Last January, he rescinded a set of modest Joe Biden-era policies, calling the rules "dangerous" and a "barrier" to American AI leadership. Even the preamble of today's executive order celebrates that Trump "unleashed tremendous technological growth" by "slashing the bureaucratic constraints that the prior administration placed on America's AI developers." Yet core components of those supposedly dangerous Biden-era AI regulations -- voluntary agreements to share information about advanced AI models with federal agencies, for instance, as well as federal programs to leverage AI for cyberdefense -- are strikingly similar to today's new AI executive order. Dean Ball, a former AI adviser to the Trump administration, wrote that the policy "is considerably more intrusive" than Biden's executive order. Today's order still could have been much more forceful. When the White House first started previewing the possibility of regulatory action in May, one administration official suggested that AI models would be reviewed "just like an FDA drug." Even the leaked draft text of the version that Trump had originally planned to sign last month would have been more burdensome for tech companies. After David Sacks, the White House's former AI czar, reportedly called the president to complain, Trump canceled the signing ceremony. Today, after the new order was announced, Sacks declared the watered-down provisions a "game changer" on X -- despite the fact that the new government-review process is not so different from what he had originally opposed. This means that two former libertarian AI advisers to the White House -- Ball and Sacks -- disagree about whether this order is a good thing. At the same time, joining Sacks in praising the rule is Steve Bannon, Trump's former chief strategist and a leading critic of AI on the right. "It's not perfect," he told us. "But directionally, it is pretty damn good." As Bannon sees it, despite the fact the order is weaker than earlier versions, codifying rules is a step in the right direction. The entire, chaotic saga -- a wishy-washy White House, confused statements from populist and tech-elite Trump whisperers -- is only the latest in a long string of strange, often contradictory AI-policy positions. Trump's approach to AI has been inconsistent, if not incoherent, almost since the day he retook office. Consider that, for all the talk of cybersecurity, this administration has also gutted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the government agency that aims to protect the nation against hackers. CISA also happens to be one of the main federal agencies tasked with implementing today's executive order. Or take the White House's relationship with Anthropic. On the one hand, Anthropic likely triggered the executive order in the first place. In April, the company announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new model with advanced hacking capabilities that has ignited concern over the growing power of AI companies. Ever since, the president has seemed to cozy up to Anthropic. Dario Amodei, the firm's CEO, visited the White House that same month for conversations over the future of the government's relationship with the company. "I like high-IQ people, and they definitely have high IQs," Trump later told reporters of Anthropic's leadership. On the other hand, the Trump administration appears to be fighting in court to bar Anthropic from doing most national-security work. In February, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" after a high-profile contract dispute over the use of AI in warfare, essentially declaring it a national-security risk for the military to even touch Anthropic products. In late April, when Anthropic tried to grant Mythos access to more companies for cyberdefense -- very in line with today's executive order -- the White House appears to have, inexplicably, blocked the move. (An Anthropic spokesperson pointed us to a post on X in which the company called today's executive order "an important step in strengthening America's leadership in AI.") Or take the administration's attitudes toward China. Trump has repeatedly emphasized the need to deregulate the AI industry in order to stay ahead of China. Meanwhile, he has also permitted Nvidia to sell some of its most advanced AI chips to Chinese companies, lifting an export control the Biden administration put in place precisely to waylay Chinese AI development. (Anthropic, by the way, denied a Chinese think tank access to Mythos.) Trump has, in the name of beating China, pushed to remove regulatory constraints on data-center construction: "Build, baby, build," he said last July. But once uproar emerged about data centers hiking up electricity bills, the White House announced a voluntary pledge for AI companies to take a number of measures that would prevent everyday people from paying for data-center electricity. Build, baby, but prudently. Indeed, at least some of the vacillations seem to be driven by public opinion. Over the past several months, as AI models have improved, attitudes toward the technology have soured. Today's order allows the administration to look as if it is undertaking more robust AI regulation -- but it doesn't actually require the industry to do very much, if anything. Trump is trying to score points with both the public and Silicon Valley. But in doing so, he's not saying or doing anything substantive at all. AI spending is consuming the U.S. economy, people are afraid of losing their jobs to AI, and communities across the nation are gathering to protest data centers. Political figures as divergent as Bannon and Bernie Sanders are expressing concern over AI and the concentration of power among the industry's executives. This would seem to be a clarion call for the president of the United States, and a populist one at that. Instead, the White House spent weeks prevaricating on an executive order that rests on the voluntary cooperation of the AI industry. With Anthropic, OpenAI, and their competitors becoming major economic and geopolitical powers, the window for any one government to seriously regulate AI is rapidly closing. Hopefully, it is not already gone.

Trump Signs Executive Order Granting Oversight of A.I. Models

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that asked technology companies to give the government oversight of new artificial intelligence models before releasing them to the public, a shift for an administration that had promoted a hands-off approach to the powerful technology. The order followed months of debate in the Trump administration over how to handle A.I. and its effects on cybersecurity and national security. Last month, Mr. Trump scrapped an executive order on A.I. -- which would have created a 14-to-90 day window in which the government would review new A.I. models before they were released -- just hours before he was set to sign it. Mr. Trump's new executive order formally shifts the White House from its anything-goes approach with A.I. companies, which the president and his cabinet had said could help advance the United States in a technological race against China, to a more hands-on stance. The new order asks tech companies to give the government a shorter 30-day window for their new A.I. models to be reviewed before they are publicly released. It also asks the ⁠Treasury Secretary to form an A.I. "cybersecurity clearinghouse," which would review security vulnerabilities discovered by A.I. models. "Advanced A.I. capabilities make our nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies," the order said. This is a developing news story. Check back for updates.

Trump signs narrowed AI order with voluntary 30-day model review

The order, signed without ceremony after the original was scrapped in May, creates an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse and establishes a voluntary pre-release review framework that stops well short of the 90-day mandatory testing the earlier draft proposed President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. The order, titled "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security," was signed privately without the usual livestream or public ceremony, a contrast with the fanfare that typically accompanies presidential AI announcements. The final version is substantially narrower than the draft Trump rejected on 21 May, when he scrapped a planned signing ceremony over concerns that the order "could dull America's edge on AI technology." The original draft proposed a 90-day mandatory pre-release review period and would have given the government formal evaluation authority over frontier models. The signed version asks companies to voluntarily submit models 30 days before release and participate in a collaborative framework rather than submitting to mandatory testing. What the order does The executive order establishes three main mechanisms. First, a voluntary pre-release review framework in which AI developers can engage the government to determine whether models under development qualify as "covered frontier models," provide access for up to 30 days before planned release, and collaborate on selecting "trusted partners" for early access. The framework is explicitly voluntary, meaning companies can decline to participate without penalty. Second, the order creates an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse within 30 days, coordinated by the Treasury Secretary, the National Cyber Director, the NSA, and CISA. The clearinghouse will scan for software vulnerabilities, validate discoveries, and coordinate remediation and patch distribution, a direct response to the Mythos crisis that demonstrated how AI-discovered vulnerabilities can outpace existing disclosure and patching processes. Third, federal agencies are directed to develop benchmarks for assessing AI models' cybersecurity capabilities and to strengthen the government's own security defences against AI-enabled threats. The order also addresses AI safety research, though the specific provisions are less prescriptive than what the original draft contained. What was cut The differences between the scrapped draft and the signed order reflect the victory of the pro-industry faction within the White House. The 90-day mandatory review was reduced to a 30-day voluntary window. The formal government evaluation authority was replaced with a collaborative framework. The reporting requirements for companies developing powerful models, which would have echoed provisions in Biden's repealed AI executive order, were softened to avoid what industry allies characterised as regulatory overreach. Silicon Valley's objections to the original draft were decisive. AI companies argued that mandatory pre-release testing would slow American innovation, create a competitive disadvantage relative to Chinese firms facing no equivalent requirements, and establish a precedent for government gatekeeping of technology deployment. The signed order addresses those concerns by making participation voluntary and framing the government's role as collaborative rather than regulatory. The gap it leaves The voluntary framework means the order's effectiveness depends entirely on whether AI companies choose to participate. Companies already engaged in pre-release testing with CAISI, including Google, Microsoft, and xAI, may continue or expand that cooperation. Companies that view government review as commercially disadvantageous or that are racing to ship products can simply opt out. The EU's AI Act, entering full enforcement in August, provides a stark contrast: mandatory requirements, statutory authority, and penalties for non-compliance. The Trump order establishes norms and creates institutional infrastructure (the cybersecurity clearinghouse, the benchmark development process) but relies on goodwill rather than obligation. For the White House, the quiet signing may be the point. The order gives the administration a policy document it can reference when asked about AI oversight, creates structures that could be strengthened later, and avoids a public confrontation with an AI industry whose leaders are among the administration's most visible supporters. Whether a voluntary framework is adequate for a technology that can discover 10,000 zero-day vulnerabilities in a month is the question the order deliberately leaves unanswered.

Trump's new AI executive order could slow down future model launches

Additionally, the order directs the Department of Justice to treat AI-assisted hacking and unauthorized access as crimes of high priority. It's not the first time a president has signed an executive order related to generative AI. In fact, this isn't even the first time President Donald Trump has approached the subject. However, the president's latest executive order could potentially slow down the rollout of some new AI models. On Tuesday, President Trump signed a new executive order focused on new AI models. The order doesn't require, but calls on certain AI companies to voluntarily submit their new AI models for governmental review before releasing them to the public. A previous draft of the order requested up to 90 days of review, but the current version asks for up to 30 days of testing and evaluation. It appears that the president planned to sign the executive order with some of Silicon Valley's CEOs behind him. However, Politico reports that he instead signed the order privately. This comes after the president reportedly had a meeting at the White House the day before regarding next steps for the order. In addition to requesting voluntary governmental AI model reviews, the executive order also directs the Department of Justice to treat AI-assisted hacking and unauthorized access as crimes of high priority. Specifically, it states that the Attorney General shall prioritize enforcement of "criminal laws against anyone who utilizes AI to illegally access or damage a computer without authorization, or who utilizes AI while engaged in such illegal access to further any other crime."

US order seeks 30-day frontier model access before public release

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Tuesday that asks artificial intelligence companies to share advanced AI models with the federal government before public release. The move marks the White House's latest effort to tighten national security coordination around rapidly advancing AI systems without introducing formal licensing requirements. The order creates a voluntary framework for AI developers to work with federal agencies on evaluating models with advanced cyber capabilities. Under the proposal, companies could provide government officials with access to certain frontier AI models up to 30 days before wider deployment. Trump signed the order privately after delaying a planned public event with technology executives several weeks ago. At the time, he told reporters he disliked parts of the original proposal. The White House framed the directive as a balance between accelerating AI innovation and protecting critical infrastructure from cyber threats. Administration officials repeatedly stressed that the order does not establish mandatory government approval for AI releases. The executive order directs multiple federal agencies to strengthen cyber defenses within 30 days. The Department of Homeland Security, through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, must issue new operational guidance to protect federal networks and critical infrastructure systems. The administration also ordered agencies to expand AI-driven cybersecurity programs and improve access to defensive tools for state governments, utilities, hospitals, and community banks. Another section creates a voluntary AI cybersecurity clearinghouse led by the Treasury Department. The initiative will coordinate vulnerability scanning, software patching, and threat detection efforts alongside private industry partners. Trump's order repeatedly positions AI as both a national security asset and a growing cyber risk. The administration argues that advanced AI tools could help defend government systems while also creating new attack surfaces for adversaries. A central part of the order focuses on so-called "covered frontier models," which refer to advanced AI systems with significant cyber capabilities. Federal agencies, including the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, must develop a classified benchmarking process within 60 days. That process will assess whether a model meets the threshold for additional government review. Companies could voluntarily ask the government to evaluate models still under development. Developers may also grant federal agencies early access to those systems before releasing them to outside partners. The order additionally allows the government to collaborate with AI companies on selecting "trusted partners" that receive early model access. However, the White House included language aimed at calming industry concerns over federal overreach. "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement," the order states. That provision reflects ongoing tension between Silicon Valley and Washington over how aggressively the government should regulate frontier AI systems. Anthropic welcomed the executive order and signaled support for the White House approach. "This Executive Order is an important step in strengthening America's leadership in AI," the company said on X. Anthropic added that it looks forward to working with the administration on implementation efforts. The order also directs the Justice Department to prioritize cases involving criminals who use AI tools to hack computer systems, steal data, or support cybercrime operations. Federal prosecutors will focus on existing laws tied to computer fraud, identity theft, and wire fraud when AI systems play a role in illegal activity. The directive arrives during an intense global race to develop more powerful AI models. Major technology firms continue to release increasingly capable systems while governments worldwide debate how to manage security, economic, and geopolitical risks tied to the technology. Trump's administration has largely favored lighter regulation compared with previous White House AI proposals. Tuesday's order continues that approach while expanding federal coordination around cybersecurity and advanced AI deployment.

Trump signs order designed to give government early look at powerful AI models

From left, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company chief executive C.C. Wei, President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House adviser David Sacks in the Oval Office last year. (Annabelle Gordon/For The Washington Post) President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that would provide the government with an early look at powerful new artificial intelligence models, giving officials a chance to brace the economy for security risks. Trump had been expected to sign an order on the issue last month but reversed course following last-minute lobbying by tech industry executives. The order the president signed Tuesday is largely the same as an earlier draft obtained by The Washington Post, but it narrows the government's preview to up to 30 days rather than 90 days. Participation in the system by artificial intelligence companies would be voluntary, according to the order, but leading firms are expected to take part. The order comes after Anthropic, the maker of chatbot Claude, developed a model called Mythos that has been shown to be effective at finding security weaknesses in computer code and hacking into networks. The company declined to release the model to the public, inviting a small group of partners to test out its capabilities and fix their systems. On Tuesday, Anthropic said it had invited 150 more organizations to join the program, which it calls Glasswing. This is a developing story and will be updated.

Trump signs scaled-back AI cybersecurity order - Engadget

The federal government will only have 30 days at best to review new models. On Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the creation of a framework designed to give the federal government the capability to evaluate AI models. The order tasks the Office of the National Cyber Director, which is responsible for advising the president on cybersecurity matters, with developing a process that would allow the US to share information about software vulnerabilities identified by AI systems like Claude Mythos with operators of critical infrastructure, including banks, local utilities and hospitals, before those models are made publicly available. Trump was originally expected to announce the order on May 21, but according to Axios the White House postponed the signing ceremony following pressure from tech industry insiders. The president later told reporters he "didn't like certain aspects" of the original order. According to Politico, Trump took part in small, high-level White House meeting where he and his advisors agreed on a new scaled-back order. The new directive, signed in a private ceremony, asks some AI companies with sharing their most powerful models for voluntary government review 30 days before making them available to the public. An earlier draft had called for giving the government as much as 90 days to review a model, with some industry officials reportedly pushing for that period be shortened to as little as 14 days before today's announcement. Prior to the announcement, Engadget spoke to the Center for Democracy and Technology. "I think the idea of testing, particularly for critical infrastructure providers, to be able to identify vulnerabilities and patch them before the capabilities become widely available, there's a lot of sense to that," Samir Jain, the organization's vice-president of policy, told Engadget. Although he had not seen the final executive order, Jain called the order "opaque" at the time, noting it doesn't give the public much visibility into the benchmarking process. "We don't want a situation in which any administration can exercise arbitrary power over whether, when and how models are released, particularly when they could use security as a pretense to block or handicap a model for political or ideological reasons that aren't related," he said. "An opaque procedure allows for that possibility." That Trump has decided, after his earlier to misgivings, to regulate the AI industry in some form is a departure. In his AI Action Plan from last summer, the White House outlined a policy vision that put few guardrails on OpenAI and others. In so far as the president sought to regulate the industry, he did so only on ideological grounds, issuing an order that limited the federal government from procuring "woke" AI systems that "manipulate responses in favor of ideological dogmas such as DEI." Trump has also sought to prevent states like Colorado and New York from passing their own AI restrictions, going so far as to order the creation of AI litigation task force inside of the Department of Justice to challenge state laws deemed "onerous" by the president. "To the extent there's been regulation, it's been more toward ideological goals. It's fair to say the Trump administration has been quite laissez-faire in terms of the risks and potential harms associated with AI," said Jain. "In that sense, the executive order is a change from the perspective the administration has realized that AI poses real security risks and the government needs to act to mitigate or address those risks."

Trump signs AI executive order asking companies to give government early access to models

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order asking companies to provide artificial intelligence models to the federal government to assess their capabilities ahead of a full release. Tech companies will comply with the order voluntarily. It asks them to participate in a benchmarking process to assess AI models' cybersecurity capabilities, and it allows the government to help select "trusted partners" that will receive early access to the models. "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models," the order said. Trump signed the order in private, just weeks after he postponed a signing ceremony with prominent tech CEOs because he "didn't like certain aspects of it," he told reporters at the time. The order released on Tuesday is vague on specifics.

Trump signs AI safety order seeking voluntary review of new models

The Trump administration's latest AI executive order directs federal agencies to develop benchmarks to assess AI models' cyber capabilities, to create an "an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse" to review and share information on vulnerabilities, and to shore up the government's security defenses. Graeme Sloan/Getty Images hide caption President Trump signed a long-awaited executive order on Tuesday that aims to mitigate security threats posed by artificial intelligence, in a shift from the administration's hands-off approach to the technology. The order asks AI companies to voluntarily submit their most powerful models for the government to test up to 30 days before releasing them to the public. It also directs federal agencies to develop benchmarks to assess AI models' cyber capabilities, to create an "an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse" to review and share information on vulnerabilities, and to shore up the government's security defenses. "Advanced AI capabilities make our Nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies," the new executive order says. "As these capabilities evolve, my Administration will continue to work closely with industry to ensure that the best and most secure technology is deployed rapidly to confront any and all threats to our country." The executive order was expected to come out last month, but the White House scrapped signing plans over concerns that it would interfere with AI innovation. Trump said at the time he worried the order would stifle American companies' lead in the global race amid competitive pressure from China. That earlier version gave the government up to 90 days to review advanced models before release -- a timeline that was cut to 30 days in the final order. The Trump administration has been divided over how to approach AI. While the Biden White House pushed for federal oversight of the emerging technology, Trump has sought to minimize regulation, including at the state level, even as concerns over safety risks have proliferated. But recently, the development of more powerful AI models has spooked some federal officials, prompting the White House to reverse course and back some safety measures. In particular, Anthropic's announcement in April that it was limiting the release of its new Mythos Preview model because of its ability to identify and exploit software security vulnerabilities set off alarm bells across Silicon Valley and Washington. Notably, the order relies on voluntary cooperation from the tech companies leading AI development, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Referring to the voluntary testing framework, the order states that "nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models." Any regulations around the technology would have to come from Congress.

New Trump executive order requests AI companies 'voluntarily' allow the White House to test the "advanced cyber capabilities of AI models

* Trump signs executive order on AI testing * Models must undergo cybersecurity review pre‑release * Major AI firms publicly support initiative US President Donald Trump signed a new executive order earlier this week, demanding leading AI companies voluntarily submit their flagship models for government cybersecurity testing before deploying them into the market. This change in philosophy in the Trump administration seems to be fueled by the release of Anthropic's Mythos Preview, an AI model allegedly so powerful it can surface decades-old software vulnerabilities and develop working exploits. The tool has not yet been released to the public and has instead only been given to a handful of major tech companies, to get a head start on malicious actors. According to Anthropic, the tool was already used to find "thousands" of vulnerabilities, including some deemed critical severity. Initially, the Trump administration advocated for a more hands-off approach to the tech sector, but now seems set to play a hand in regulating US frontier AI models. Industry support According to Reuters, the executive order directs the departments of Treasury, Defense, Commerce, and Homeland Security, as well as other government agencies and officials, to "secure agreements with AI developers to test their models." The tests would give US agencies a month's time before the models are released to the market. Major AI developer companies seem to be on board with this executive order. Google executive Kent Walker allegedly described it as "an important step forward," and Anthropic said it looked forward to working with the White House. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the order "gets the balance right". "The US should lead on AI by continuing to develop the very best models, making sure they're safe, and getting cyber tools into the hands of trusted defenders," Altman was cited saying. Reuters also said that voluntary federal testing has been in place "for a few years", and that major companies, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, have been doing it even during the Biden administration. Last month xAI and Microsoft agreed to do the same thing, although apparently the details "later disappeared from its website". Sabeen Malik, VP of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy at Rapid7, commented on the executive order: "The most interesting thing is that both administrations, despite very different philosophies, are converging on the same underlying concern: frontier AI is increasingly being treated as a strategic capability comparable to advanced cyber tools, semiconductors, or dual-use military technologies." "The disagreement is no longer over whether frontier AI matters for national security. The disagreement is over whether security is best achieved through regulation and guardrails or voluntary cooperation and competitive dominance. That may end up being the central AI policy fault line for the rest of this decade." Via Reuters Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.

Trump tiptoes toward real AI oversight in new executive order

With an AI arms race already well underway, President Trump finally took a small step toward governmental AI oversight by signing a new executive order. Trump's order, entitled "Promoting advanced artificial intelligence innovation and security," first boasts of his administration's ability to cut red tape on AI advances, while also acknowledging the national security considerations that artificial intelligence raises. The order calls for administration leaders like the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Homeland Security to, among other things, "design a voluntary framework with AI developers through which developers would be able to" submit new models to the government for a period up to 30 days to ensure their safety. The order tasks the Secretary of the Treasury with forming "an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, in voluntary collaboration with the AI industry and operators of critical infrastructure," in the next 30 days. At the beginning of his second term, Trump wanted nearly no limits on AI, hoping it would bolster the stock market and serve as a leg up on China, which is also investing heavily in AI. Trump signed an executive order in December that banned states from enacting AI regulations. With AI-related safety and military concerns growing, Trump considered signing an AI executive order last month. That was partly scrapped, according to the New York Times, over dissent from David Sacks, Trump's former AI czar and current co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Sacks wanted the timeline for the governmental clearinghouse cut from 90 days to 30; when that change was made, Sacks gave the revised order his blessing, the Times reports. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was also instrumental in the new executive order. Hegseth has pushed for the military to use the latest AI technology, but has encountered resistance from Anthropic, which cited concerns about its use in drones and domestic surveillance. In response, Hegseth designated the company behind Claude a "a supply-chain risk to national security." Anthropic sued to reverse that designation.

Trump signs executive order seeking early access to new AI releases

Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public release Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a voluntary framework for the federal government to vet powerful new AI models before they are released. Tuesday's highly anticipated order represents an attempt by the president to tighten his grip on cybersecurity and national security threats posed by AI, tacking against his earlier deregulatory stance. Under the new rules, tech companies would be asked to share their AI models with the government for a voluntary review, up to 30 days before a public release. The Trump administration says doing so will allow them to improve national security, particularly with regards to cybersecurity. The executive order stops short of imposing mandatory review requirements on tech companies building AI models, a rumored feature of earlier versions of the executive order. Some of Trump's more hardline Maga supporters had been pushing him for a stricter process, while tech industry supporters advocated for keeping the reins loose. Still, the executive order is yet another sign that Trump is moving away from his initial low-regulation approach to AI. One of his first actions as president was to revoke a Biden-era executive order that established standards for safely developing AI. The new guardrails come amid rising fears that the latest AI models can be dangerous, especially in the wrong hands. Anthropic's Mythos, a model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities, has raised concerns among AI safety experts, governments and tech companies, for its ability to exploit vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale in widely used software. Last month, the Trump administration struck a deal with Microsoft, Google DeepMind and xAI to review early models of their new AI models before they are released. (The federal government recently removed details of that agreement from its website, although it's unclear why.) The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), part of the US Department of Commerce, already has similar deals with OpenAI and Anthropic. The federal government says this kind of information sharing is standard practice and important for national security, although some free speech advocates have warned that too much government control could lead to censorship. The National Security Agency and the Department of Defense will help determine which AI models need government scrutiny, and the treasury department will play a key role in finding vulnerabilities in AI models. The Trump administration also directed the government to hire more cybersecurity and AI professionals, and ensure there are stronger cybersecurity systems at key infrastructure, like hospitals and banks. Trump announced another AI-focused executive order in December aimed at preventing states from regulating AI, which created a federal taskforce to challenge states' AI laws.

Trump quietly signs new AI executive order

Why it matters: The new order lets the White House kick the can down the road while they consider new rules for cutting-edge AI models and what to do about AI's advanced cybersecurity capabilities. Driving the news: The surprise move comes more than a week after Trump cancelled the release of another version of the order with stricter requirements, saying it could hurt American competitiveness. What they're saying: "Advanced AI capabilities make our Nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies (agencies), and components," the executive order states. * "As these capabilities evolve, my Administration will continue to work closely with industry to ensure that the best and most secure technology is deployed rapidly to confront any and all threats to our country." What's inside: Per the executive order, national security agencies will be required to bolster cybersecurity abilities and create a "cybersecurity clearinghouse." * Within 60 days, the Treasury Department, the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and White House officials must "develop a classified benchmarking process to assess advanced cyber capabilities of AI models and decide when a model should be treated as a "covered frontier model." The intrigue: Former White House AI czar and current adviser David Sacks and National Economic Council deputy director Ryan Baasch pushed for language prohibiting the creation of mandatory government licensing, according to a source familiar. * "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models." * Sacks has continued to play an influential role from his new perch outside the White House. The abrupt cancellation of the earlier executive order occurred after his involvement, though the president himself was also not keen on it. * White House staff, Sacks and Trump discussed the executive order Monday, according to sources familiar. Other tech industry sources had told Axios negotiations were ongoing as of Tuesday morning. This is breaking news. Check back for updates.

Trump killed his own AI order, then quietly signed another one weeks later | Fortune

The order establishes a framework for the federal government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release. The government will be able to work with trusted partners "that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure," the order says. It was not immediately clear to what extent the order differed from the one he declined to sign on May 21. Trump canceled an Oval Office event with tech industry executives last month because he did not like what he saw in the earlier version of the order's text. "We're leading China, we're leading everybody, and I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead," Trump told reporters at the time. That directive was characterized as a voluntary collaboration with participating U.S.-based tech companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.

President Trump Signs AI Executive Order After Delaying It Over China Concerns

The move comes weeks after Trump delayed a similar proposal, saying parts of it could weaken America's AI lead over China. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at strengthening U.S. cybersecurity with advanced artificial intelligence while expanding cooperation between federal agencies and leading AI companies. The order, titled "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security," directs agencies to accelerate the use of AI-powered cybersecurity tools, create an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, and establish a process for identifying advanced AI models. "Advanced AI capabilities make our nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies (agencies), and components," the executive order reads. "As these capabilities evolve, my administration will continue to work closely with industry to ensure that the best and most secure technology is deployed rapidly to confront any and all threats to our country." The order also directs agencies to establish a classified review process under which the National Security Agency would determine whether advanced AI systems qualify as covered frontier models. Developers will be able to voluntarily provide those models to the government for evaluation "for a period of up to 30 days before they plan to release such models to other trusted partners." In May, Trump delayed signing a similar executive order, saying parts of the proposal could slow U.S. AI development and weaken America's position in its competition with China. Critics of Trump's executive order say the framework relies too heavily on voluntary cooperation from the AI companies it is meant to oversee. "Models powerful enough to threaten cybersecurity and national security warrant real oversight," J.B. Branch, AI governance and technology policy counsel at consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen, said in a statement. "Congress and the administration should enact comprehensive federal AI legislation with enforceable safeguards, transparency requirements, independent testing, and meaningful protections for workers, consumers, children, and civil rights." The effort to draft an AI-focused executive order gained momentum after concerns surrounding Anthropic's Claude Mythos model, which demonstrated an ability to identify software vulnerabilities and raised questions among officials about the national security implications of increasingly capable AI models. In April, following the reveal of Mythos, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and then Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened a meeting with Wall Street bank CEOs, warning about cybersecurity risks tied to a new artificial intelligence model. Despite these concerns, Anthropic has continued to roll out limited access to Mythos. On Tuesday, the Claude AI developer said it is expanding access to its Claude Mythos AI model through Project Glasswing, a program meant to let tech and security firms and governments discover and address potential exploits before the powerful model is publicly launched -- which the company hinted last week would be "in the coming weeks." While sweeping, the executive order also seeks to reassure AI developers that the new framework will not create a formal approval process for releasing new models. The order also comes as Trump attempts to establish a federal regulatory framework around AI as a growing number of states move forward with their own legislation. The order also calls for tougher enforcement against criminal uses of AI, including breaching any public or private information technology system, or "employing AI agents to unlawfully access data or information that is subsequently used for a criminal or unlawful purpose." Last month, federal prosecutors charged two men with using AI to generate and distribute sexually explicit images of women without their consent, marking one of the first major enforcement actions under the new Take It Down Act.

Trump offers pre-release AI vetting after Anthropic security scare

AI companies will be able to get their models voluntarily checked by Donald Trump's administration a month before their release, according to the order. Artificial intelligence (AI) companies can now get their models vetted before release, according to a new executive order signed by US President Donald Trump. The executive order, signed overnight Tuesday, establishes a framework for the federal government to vet national security risks for the most advanced AI systems up to a month before they are publicly released. The involvement of AI developers would be voluntary, the order says. "Advanced AI capabilities make our nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies," the order reads. The order gives various US agencies a 30-day deadline to prioritise the administration's cyber defences by expanding access to AI. It will also form a "cybersecurity clearinghouse," that "coordinates and deconflicts scanning for software vulnerabilities," the order says. Trump previously declined to sign an executive order on AI in May because he did not want to compromise the country's innovation lead over China, seen as the closest competitor to the US on AI development. However, US officials changed tune on AI evaluations shortly after Anthropic released its new cybersecurity model, Mythos. Key members of Trump's administration issued warnings to CEOs about Anthropic's new cybersecurity model Mythos after was revealed that it is allegedly capable of finding vulnerabilities in the world's software. So far, Mythos has been released to a small group of partners, but the company announced on Tuesday that it was granting access to another 150 organisations, which could include the European Commission, according to US media. Anthropic called Trump's new order "an important step in strengthening America's leadership in AI," according to the Associated Press, and said it looks forward to collaborating with the White House to support its implementation. Its chief rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, also described the policy as an important step, as did Google. "As AI capabilities continue to advance, we believe effective safety frameworks should continue to be developed through democratic institutions, informed by technical expertise and broad stakeholder input, to promote accountability and public trust," said a statement from Chris Lehane, OpenAI's chief global affairs officer.

Trump signs order seeking early access to powerful AI models before their release

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on April 30.Alex Brandon / AP President Donald Trump signed a landmark executive order targeting increasingly powerful AI systems Tuesday morning. The order, signed in private, directs various federal groups to shore up the nation's cybersecurity defenses for critical infrastructure and sets in motion a mechanism for the federal government to test and vet the most powerful AI systems for safety issues before they are deployed. The testing would rely on voluntary collaboration from America's leading AI companies, like Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. "Advanced AI capabilities make our Nation stronger, but also introduce new national security considerations that require coordinated action across executive departments and agencies," the executive order says. The order states the Trump administration will "work closely with industry to ensure that the best and most secure technology is deployed rapidly to confront any and all threats to our country." The executive order was originally scheduled to be signed in late May, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The White House invited tech CEOs to attend the signing ceremony and held a press briefing with senior officials on the morning of the planned announcement. However, President Donald Trump pulled the order at the last minute, later telling reporters that the order could have hindered American companies' competitiveness with Chinese companies. The executive order has been in development for months. In April, AI company Anthropic's new Mythos Preview model sent shockwaves through Washington with its superhuman ability to find critical and severe vulnerabilities in the world's most-used operating systems. Senior administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Vice President JD Vance, have become increasingly invested in governing AI's spread and limiting threats to America's security and economy.

Trump signs AI executive order to give government early look at new models

Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, D.C. Washington -- President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order meant to enhance artificial security and innovation by, among other things, establishing a program for AI companies to voluntarily share powerful new models with the government before they are released to the public. He delayed signing a version of the AI order nearly two weeks ago because he was concerned it would get "in the way" of the United States leading China and other competitors in the AI space. The executive order the president ultimately signed on Tuesday emphasizes that the federal government doesn't want to stifle innovation: "The United States continues to lead the world in Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of the enormous talent and innovation of our AI industry, and because we refuse to stifle this innovation with overly burdensome regulation." The order aims to both use AI to sure up the nation's federal cybersecurity systems for the use of AI and using the technology; develop a classified benchmarking process to identify "frontier" models for AI, or systems that are at the forefront of the field; and work with companies willing to voluntarily give the federal government access to such frontier models for up to 30 days before release. The ability of frontier models to identify long-overlooked software vulnerabilities in crucial systems has raised concerns that they could be used for nefarious purposes. Anthropic, one of the leading AI labs, announced in April that it would be providing its new model, Mythos, to select partners to allow them to harden their defenses against cyberattacks before the technology is available more broadly. The president's executive order emphasizes the voluntary nature of any AI company collaboration with the federal government, and that it doesn't prohibit AI innovators from advancing their technology. "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models," the order says. On cybersecurity concerns, the executive order calls on the homeland security secretary to establish and expand federal cybersecurity programs that enhance AI defensive tools. It also calls on the treasury secretary, defense secretary, director of the National Security Agency and homeland security secretary, working with AI operators, to set up an AI cybersecurity clearance house to look for software vulnerabilities. The White House never released the original draft the president was previously expected to sign. But Mr. Trump offered an explanation for why he didn't sign it. "Because I didn't like certain aspects of it, I postponed it," Mr. Trump said at the time. "I think it gets in the way of, you know, we're leading China, we're leading everybody, and I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead."

Trump signs order allowing AI companies to give government access to models before release

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to enable leading AI developers to voluntarily submit their most capable models for government cybersecurity tests before releasing them to the public. The order was triggered by concerns over Anthropic's Mythos model, which the company refused to release due to its ability to expose vulnerabilities in computer systems. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a voluntary framework under which AI developers will share advanced models with the government before public release. The central provision allows companies such as OpenAI, Google or Anthropic to give the government access to their most powerful models for up to 30 days before planned release. The order was triggered by concerns over Anthropic's Mythos model, which the AI startup has refused to release publicly due to its ability to expose vulnerabilities in computer systems - including those of banks, governments and hospitals. The 30-day window represents a compromise: the original draft that leaked to US media called for up to 90 days of pre-release government access, while tech companies had pushed to cut that figure to just 14 days. The signing comes after a turbulent few weeks in which the White House appeared close to unveiling the measure, only to pull back abruptly. According to Politico and other media, David Sacks, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who served as Trump's AI and crypto czar, called the president to warn that the measure would slow innovation and hurt the United States in its AI race with China - blindsiding White House staff who believed Sacks supported the order. Sacks wrote on X last week that "unnecessary regulation is the biggest threat to innovation in America", adding that winning the AI race required clearing "bureaucratic hurdles" from state legislatures and Washington politicians. The order also instructs Treasury, the National Security Agency and the CISA agency to form an "AI cybersecurity clearinghouse" in voluntary collaboration with industry and critical infrastructure operators to coordinate scanning for software vulnerabilities and prioritize patches. Trump scrapped a Biden-era AI oversight order on his first day back in the White House. Biden's 2023 order required AI companies to share safety test results with the government and leaned heavily on voluntary commitments - already a light-touch approach that fell short of what many experts had called for. By contrast, the European Union's AI Act - which entered into force in 2024 - sets binding rules for high-risk AI systems, including mandatory transparency requirements and, for the most powerful models, obligations around safety testing and incident reporting.

The Trump White House is ready to regulate AI, but it's exactly the wrong body to do so, and its control could become a problem

With little fanfare, US President Donald Trump may have signed one of the most important executive orders in his second term at the White House. With the "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security" EO, the US government is finally putting its finger on the scale of AI development, more or less demanding that AI companies provide it with access to their Frontier Models for a period of 30 days before their public release. Since no national US regulations currently exist for AI and much of the oversight is being left to a hodgepodge of mostly in-process state-level regulation, this is the first whiff of broad-based control. While most of the major AI companies, including Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, appear to support the order, they also appear caught off guard by the casual signing and have yet to weigh in. On X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman posted a Bible verse at roughly the same time as Trump signed the order: "One of the quotes I find most inspiring on a hard day: 'Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom' Ecclesiastes 9:10" That may or may not be a commentary on Trump's order, but one could fairly wonder whether there's a hint of concern there, and in other AI halls, about White House meddling in the course of AI. With new models coming out almost monthly and regular reports that China is closing the gap between Western models and its own model work, there are concerns that a delay to allow the US Department of War, the NSA, and other US Government trusted partners to examine these models could slow down OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, and result in them and the US falling behind this crucial race. Anthropic, which is not exactly the US Government's favorite AI purveyor, may have sparked this move to, if not control, manage the scale and growth of AI when it released its potential cybersecurity-breaking Mythos model, which could find hidden vulnerabilities in almost any vintage software. Ostensibly, this is the kind of risk the US Government will be looking for: any threat to cybersecurity or infrastructure. But the order doesn't really specify how these agencies will carry out their work, and, to be honest, I do wonder whether the Trump administration will be digging around for other "issues." Where have I seen this before? It's highly unusual for commercial software to run through a government agency for vetting unless, say, you're in China, which demands access to all technology developed within its borders. It's one of the reasons the US Government was never comfortable with the Chinese company ByteDance developing the TikTok algorithm. One has to wonder if global partners will soon be looking sideways at Frontier Model work subsequently provided by Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other US-based companies. Who's to say the US government won't look for Frontier model responses that go against the US government party line on various policies? Could they also look for DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) principles and demand they be scrubbed from Frontier models before they're released? The problem here is that this is an executive order coming from a White House that has made no bones about where it stands on a range of social issues. When people talk to their AI chatbots, they often discuss personal issues that could concern topics that run afoul of the White House's current policies and stances. It would be better if regulation came from a bipartisan or third-party independent space, one with no stance on police beyond general principles of common good and fairness. But because the US government cannot agree on anything, that's not going to happen. The White House happily steps into this gap and is now in a position to regulate virtually every major model released within US shores. It might be helpful, but it could also be a recipe for disaster on many levels. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Replace this - check in here for a relevant ecomms block to include. If none, include a Hawk widget instead

Trump signs scaled-back version of AI executive order

President Donald Trump today signed an executive order designed to broaden the use of artificial intelligence in federal cybersecurity initiatives. Trump reportedly planned to hold the signing ceremony last month, but called off the event at the last minute. The decision reportedly came after several prominent tech executives pushed back against the order. Trump told reporters the day the signing ceremony was set to take place that "I didn't like certain aspects of it. I postponed it." The directive is narrower in scope than the version that was set to be signed last month. According to Politico, the original draft called on AI developers to make "covered frontier models" available to the federal government up to 90 days before their release. The order signed today significantly shortens that time frame. A covered frontier model is an AI system with particularly advanced cybersecurity capabilities. In April, Anthropic PBC previewed a large language model called Claude Mythos Preview that can detect highly complicated software vulnerabilities. It can also develop exploitation workflows, which significantly reduces the amount of time hackers need to launch cyberattacks. Anthropic says that the model has found thousands of vulnerabilities to date. The executive order calls on the government to develop a classified benchmarking process for determining which AI systems qualify as covered frontier models. Officials will have 60 days to implement the workflow. Additionally, the White House will create a voluntary framework through which AI developers can submit their algorithms for review. If an LLM qualifies as a covered frontier model, its developer will be asked to give the government early access for up to 30 days. Such agreements will be "subject to appropriate confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, and intellectual-property protection, use, and nondisclosure requirements." During the early access period, officials will use covered frontier models to find ways of making critical infrastructure more secure. The executive order also calls for the creation of several other AI initiatives. It will establish programs focused on making AI-powered cybersecurity tools more accessible to federal agencies, states, local authorities and critical infrastructure operators. Additionally, the Office of Personnel Management will be instructed to expand its cybersecurity recruiting efforts. Separately, top officials from several departments will establish an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse. The initiative, which will include the voluntary participation of model developers, seeks to identify, prioritize and fix software exploits using AI. As part of the effort, the government will look for federal grant programs that can be used to finance AI vulnerability detection projects.

Trump signs AI order that asks companies to give government early access

President Donald Trump named Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as the new acting director of national intelligence. WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that asks AI developers to voluntarily submit their models to the federal government to review for potential security risks amid growing concerns about the rapid rise of the technology. The order, which Trump signed in private on June 2, stops short of mandating that the federal government conduct safety evaluations and cybersecurity testing for advanced AI products. Instead, it establishes a voluntary framework for AI developers who choose to engage with the federal government before releasing certain AI models to the public. The order also directs the expansion of advanced AI in national security systems and national critical infrastructure such as rural hospitals, community banks and local utilities. Trump's signature comes after he abruptly scrapped plans on May 21 to sign a drafted AI order with slightly different language, citing concerns about overregulating the growing AI industry. Tech entrepreneurs were set to join Trump at an Oval Office signing ceremony before Trump canceled the plans. Under the newly signed order, the federal government would have access to advanced AI models submitted for testing for up to 30 days ‒ a shorter period than the 90-day window established in the draft order that Trump shelved. "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models," the order reads. A voluntary framework marks a middle ground between tech executives who oppose mandatory AI requirements and MAGA activists, including the president's former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who have pushed for requiring AI developers to submit their AI models for government security tests. Even with the scaled-back voluntary review process, the order marks a shift for Trump to more aggressive engagement with AI than he's taken to date. Trump has pushed a more hands-off approach for government intervention in the AI industry than his predecessor, former president Joe Biden. Voluntary federal testing has been in place for a few years, with companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic submitting their models for scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation. The department announced in May that Google, xAI and Microsoft had agreed to submit their AI models for security testing. Contributing: Reuters Reach Joey Garrison on X @joeygarrison.

Why Trump Is Asking Labs to Share Their AI Models With the U.S. Government Before They're Released

President Trump has signed an executive order requesting that AI companies voluntarily share their advanced AI models with the federal government up to 30 days before they're released to the world. The move represents one of the most significant efforts by the federal government to regulate AI. The order comes roughly two weeks after Trump decided against signing an earlier version of the executive order, although the only major difference between the two versions is reportedly that originally, AI companies were asked to share their models with the government up to 90 days before release. The shortening of the window to 30 days is a point in favor of deregulation, albeit a small one. Trump began the executive order by taking credit for the United States' dominance of the artificial intelligence industry, writing that "my Administration has unleashed tremendous technological growth and economic investment in AI by slashing the bureaucratic constraints that the prior administration placed on America's AI developers and researchers, and by instead encouraging AI innovation and accelerating responsible AI adoption across government and industry." The Biden administration's main executive order on AI, signed in 2023, focused more on directing federal agencies to study AI rather than advocating for any sweeping regulation. Trump's executive order, in contrast, gives AI companies a "voluntary framework" for engaging with the government regarding the development and release of cutting-edge AI models. The order directed the federal government to develop a benchmarking process for judging the cyber capabilities of AI models. If a model's capability hits a certain threshold, it will be considered a "covered frontier model." AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, will be able to give the federal government early access to these covered models, up to 30 days before making them available to the public. AI companies won't be forced to share their models with the government, though, as the executive order describes the sharing process as "voluntary," and does not "authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models." The order also includes a directive for leaders of federal agencies to upgrade their departments' cybersecurity capabilities. It orders the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Homeland Security to form an "AI cybersecurity clearinghouse," whose activities will include scanning for security vulnerabilities and distributing patches. In addition, the executive order directed the Attorney General to enforce all applicable criminal laws "AI to illegally access or damage a computer without authorization, or who utilizes AI while engaged in such illegal access to further any other crime." Such crimes include "breaching any public or private information technology system, or employing AI agents to unlawfully access data or information that is subsequently used for a criminal or unlawful purpose." Two companies that are likely to submit their models for early testing are OpenAI and Anthropic. Leaders at both companies have advocated for federal regulation of their technology, although not always consistently. Anthropic also angered the Trump administration earlier this year by refusing to alter the terms of its contract with the Department of Defense, but made its way back into the White House with the help of Claude Mythos, its ultra-powerful AI model that has upended cybersecurity. Get 1 Smart Business Story delivered straight to your inbox when you subscribe to Inc.'s free daily newsletter.

Trump Signed Order to Promote Advanced AI Innovation and Security, White House Says

June 2 (Reuters) - U.S. ⁠President ⁠Donald Trump ⁠signed an AI-related executive order aimed at promoting advanced artificial intelligence innovation and security, the White ⁠House ⁠said on Tuesday. Trump's order directs federal agencies to develop cybersecurity standards for advanced AI models, according to the text of the ⁠order released ⁠by the White ⁠House. It also directs the agencies to emphasize bolstering ⁠cyber defense across government. The order asks the U.S. Treasury secretary to ⁠form an AI "cybersecurity clearinghouse, in voluntary collaboration with ⁠the AI industry and operators of critical infrastructure, that coordinates and deconflicts scanning for software vulnerabilities, discovers and validates such vulnerabilities, and coordinates and prioritizes ⁠remediation and distribution of vulnerability patches," the order reads. (Reporting by Courtney Rozen, Bhargav Acharya and Ismail Shakil; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis)

Trump signs scaled-back AI executive order

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to shore up their defenses against more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models and develop a voluntary testing framework. The new order appears to be a scaled-back version of the order Trump initially intended to sign recently. The president backed out just hours before the planned signing last month after saying he "didn't like certain aspects of it." Signed privately, the order states AI labs can provide the government with their models for a period of up to 30 days before they plan to release them publicly. It notably reduced the 90-day period for government testing, a point of contention for the draft. The industry expressed concerns that AI development works on a much faster timeline and such a period could hamper competition with other labs. Both versions of the order included a provision underscoring that the process is entirely voluntary for AI firms. "Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models," the order says.

Trump control for US-style regulation

America is now testing AI models before companies release them. This move aims to secure the nation's lead in artificial intelligence. Other countries like China and the EU have different approaches to AI regulation. The US strategy focuses on collaboration with tech firms. This testing is crucial as AI technology advances rapidly. The global race for AI dominance is intensifying. Trump has signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to test AI models 30 days before companies officially release them. This reflects the US approach to AI regulation through collaboration with tech developers. The aim is to allow the government to conduct cybersecurity testing before public release. This order, however, marks a shift from Trump's earlier preference for a more hands-off approach to AI oversight, as concerns grow about maintaining the US' lead in the field. China has adopted a more nuanced regulatory framework that combines ideological control with state support for innovation. The EU, meanwhile, employs a risk-based system that classifies AI technologies according to potential harms and imposes corresponding mitigation requirements. Trump's executive order on voluntary testing may strike a workable balance. The US remains the world's leading AI innovation hub. Anthropic's Claude Mythos is being circulated among select government agencies before release because of concerns about their ability to exploit software vulnerabilities. The need for testing is not in dispute. But the debate centres on how it should be conducted by the Trump regime. Given that many AI-related vulnerabilities are shared across markets, achieving regulatory harmonisation is likely to take time. AI regulation tends to reflect the structure of the underlying tech market. In the US, private investors drive innovation and are wary of government intervention. China relies more heavily on state-backed development and can afford to place less weight on investor concerns. The EU is primarily an AI consumer market. Its regulatory framework prioritises consumer protection. Over time, however, most AI markets are likely to become increasingly consumer-driven, shifting attention toward safeguarding people and organisations. A broader range of products and applications will be needed to generate market-led forms of AI regulation. Yet, the competitive race to establish AI leadership may be decided well before a mature mass market emerges.

OpenAI To Give Government Early Access To New AI Models Under Trump Order

OpenAI plans to participate in President Donald Trump's voluntary framework that would give the federal government a chance to evaluate new artificial intelligence systems before they reach the public. In an interview, OpenAI executive George Osborne told CNBC that the company intends to sign up for the program and described a larger role for elected governments in guiding the rollout of AI. "It's quite right that democratic governments have a big role to play in how this technology is used and deployed," he said, adding that OpenAI takes its responsibilities very seriously. Osborne said OpenAI has been proposing ideas to regulators instead of waiting for requirements to be imposed, according to CNBC. He also urged governments to build "powerful regulatory bodies" that can adapt as the technology changes. OpenAI also published a blog post entitled "Our views on AI policy and political advocacy," which detailed the company's policy surrounding politics. "We want to be explicit: no outside political group speaks for OpenAI or represents our company's views," the post said. "OpenAI's policy views should be judged by what we say and do publicly, and we should be held to a high standard. We believe AI policy is too consequential to be treated as just another front in partisan politics," the note continued. OpenAI has been a regular presence on Capitol Hill since its ChatGPT release in 2022 helped accelerate interest in generative AI, and Altman has returned multiple times for policy conversations. This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors. Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs To add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.

OpenAI to Allow US Government Early Access to Frontier Models | PYMNTS.com

Speaking with CNBC at SXSW in London, Osborne said the company will comply with the executive order signed Tuesday (June 2) by President Donald Trump, which created a voluntary process for AI companies to provide access to their models, CNBC reported Friday. "It's quite right that democratic governments have a big role to play in how this technology is used and deployed," Osborne said, according to the report. Osborne added that OpenAI takes the responsibilities associated with powerful AI models "very seriously" and that the company "proactively suggested ways that governments can keep a track on safety and security issues, not just in the U.S., but more broadly." The White House executive order asked companies to voluntarily take part in benchmarking to examine an AI model's "advanced cyber capabilities" and gauge whether it should be classified as a "covered frontier model"; seeks access to those models for up to 30 days, allowing the government to choose "trusted partners that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure"; and calls on the Department of Justice to prioritize the enforcement of laws against anyone using AI for cyberattacks, cybercrime or other types of crime. The White House said the order should not be seen as creating "a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models." OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a Tuesday post on social platform X: "[The U.S. should] lead on AI by continuing to develop the very best models, making sure they're safe, and getting cyber tools into the hands of trusted defenders. [The] new EO gets the balance right." Rival AI startup Anthropic suggested Thursday (June 4) that frontier AI developers should slow or pause their efforts and give societal structures and alignment research time to keep up with the advancing technology. Anthropic said its proposal was sparked by the growing share of AI development that is being delegated to AI systems, and the potential that an AI system could fully autonomously design and develop another AI system. For all PYMNTS AI coverage, subscribe to the daily AI Newsletter.

White House Executive Order Seeks Access to New AI Models | PYMNTS.com

The order, signed by President Donald Trump Tuesday (June 2), asks companies to voluntarily take part in benchmarking to examine an AI model's "advanced cyber capabilities" and gauge whether it should be classified a "covered frontier model." In addition, the order seeks access to those models for up to 30 days before release, allowing the government to choose "trusted partners that will have early access to covered frontier models to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The White House said the order should not be seen as creating "a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models." The order also calls on the Department of Justice to prioritize the enforcement of laws against anyone using AI for cyberattacks or cybercrimes, or who uses AI to further other types of crime. "This includes breaching any public or private information technology system, or employing AI agents to unlawfully access data or information that is subsequently used for a criminal or unlawful purpose," the order said. The order comes nearly a month after Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI each agreed to share their frontier AI models with a government agency for national security testing before offering those models to the public. The companies signed the agreements with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), part of the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology. Anthropic and OpenAI signed similar agreements with CAISI's predecessor, the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, in 2024. Also in May, the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) called for the government to establish policies to address the risks around frontier AI models in light of the cyber capabilities of Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. The move followed the launch of Anthropic's Project Glasswing, which allowed partners to access its Mythos Preview model to identify vulnerabilities. The company has since said the model uncovered more than 10,000 cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its first month of work. For all PYMNTS AI coverage, subscribe to the daily AI Newsletter.

Trump signs executive order on AI innovation and security By Investing.com

Investing.com -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday focused on advancing artificial intelligence innovation and security, the White House announced. The order instructs federal agencies to create cybersecurity standards for advanced AI models, according to the text released by the White House. It also directs agencies to strengthen cyber defense systems across government operations. Under the order, the Treasury secretary will establish an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse. This entity will work on a voluntary basis with the AI industry and critical infrastructure operators to coordinate scanning for software vulnerabilities, discover and validate such vulnerabilities, and coordinate the distribution of vulnerability patches. The clearinghouse will also prioritize remediation efforts related to software vulnerabilities identified through this process. This article was generated with the support of AI and reviewed by an editor. For more information see our T&C.

Trump asks US AI firms to submit models for cybersecurity tests

STORY: The Trump administration is asking top AI companies to submit their most powerful models for cybersecurity testing. The testing would be voluntary and happen before the models are released to the public. This comes as security fears mount in Washington over powerful new AI systems such as Anthropic's Mythos. :: Archive President Trump signed an executive order directing several federal agencies to reach agreement with developers over such tests. Under the order, U.S. agencies will have up to 30 days to test the models before public release. The move signals a shift in Trump's AI strategy, from a fully hands-off approach to more active government oversight on national security risks. Google, Anthropic and OpenAI have welcomed the order. :: Archive OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it "gets the balance right" by developing the best models while keeping them safe and strengthening cyber defenses. The order also aims to protect critical infrastructure such as banks, hospitals and emergency services by scanning for cybersecurity weaknesses.

Trump establishes early government access to most advanced AI models

Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at strengthening oversight of the most advanced artificial intelligence models in the United States. The text provides for the creation of a framework to evaluate the cyber capabilities of models in order to identify those deemed strategic. Companies may voluntarily participate in this program and provide the government with access to their technologies up to thirty days prior to public release. The administration will also be able to intervene in the selection of partners authorized to conduct early testing of these models. The executive order specifies that it creates neither a mandatory licensing system, nor a requirement for prior government authorization to develop or market AI models. This initiative comes as several major industry players, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, are preparing for or considering initial public offerings that could value their businesses at several hundred billion dollars. The administration is thus seeking to increase its visibility into the most sensitive technologies without imposing a restrictive regulatory framework. The measure follows debates sparked by Claude Mythos Preview, an Anthropic model specialized in identifying IT vulnerabilities. The order also directs the Department of Defense to strengthen the protection of its information systems. This decision is part of a context of persistent tensions between the Pentagon and Anthropic, whose technology currently remains restricted in certain national defense contracts, a decision the company is contesting in court.