Overview
- President Donald Trump postponed a planned Executive Order on artificial intelligence at a White House signing ceremony that was called off on Thursday.
- The draft would have asked firms to give the government up to 90 days' early access to so‑called 'frontier' models for voluntary testing and risk assessment.
- Senior aides and tech executives urged the president to halt the order over fears the voluntary review could effectively require government sign‑off and slow U.S. innovation.
- Security worries about Anthropic's new model Mythos, which reporters say can find software vulnerabilities, helped drive the push for some form of pre‑release testing.
- White House officials say the order could be reworked and revived while states such as California move ahead with their own AI measures, highlighting internal administration divisions and the risk of a patchwork of rules.