President Trump signs executive order to review advanced AI models.

The administration will ask leading AI developers to voluntarily submit their most powerful AI models for cybersecurity testing before release, and agencies would get up to 30 days to test them.

The policy idea is this: if a top lab builds a model that can discover vulnerabilities, automate cyber operations, or expose weaknesses in critical infrastructure, the government wants a short early testing window so defenders can prepare patches and safeguards.

So participating AI labs can give the federal government access to covered frontier models for up to 30 days before those models are released to other trusted partners.

A "covered frontier model" is not every new model release; it means a model that crosses a government-defined threshold for advanced cyber capability, based on a classified benchmarking process run with NSA and other agencies.

So yes, the government can get early access, but only under this framework, only for models that qualify as cyber-relevant frontier systems, and subject to confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, IP, use, and nondisclosure protections.

The EO also explicitly says it does not create mandatory government licensing, preclearance, or permitting for developing, publishing, releasing, or distributing new AI models, including frontier models.