AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "President Trump postponed a planned executive order on AI and cybersecurity, cancelling a White House signing ceremony with major tech CEOs amid internal administration disagreements"
The order would have required labs to share advanced models with the government.
Assuming this stays the case (a big assumption), I'm glad to hear "both national security and civilian agencies appear to have roles in the EO's enforcement"
The 90 day thing sounds maybe iffy but hard to know without much more detail
Scoop: Trump AI executive order seeks early government access to frontier models https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/ai-trump-executive-order-white-house-infighting
Many users criticize Trump's AI executive order drafts as corrupt overreach or legally dubious, while others praise them for stressing innovation and avoiding heavy regulation.
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90 days is literally the whole game.
90 days is the lead we have on China
If this EO had gone through we would have effectively self-sabotaged ourselves and given up on the AI race.
SITUATION UPDATE: Politico has obtained a draft of Trump's postponed AI executive order, which calls for a voluntary system allowing AI developers to submit frontier models for federal review up to 90 days before release. http://politico.com/news/2026/05/22/heres-a-draft-of-trumps-unsigned-ai-executive-order-00933411?_sp_pass_consent=true
We are so f*cking back 🚀🔥🇺🇸 (it was almost so over)
US President Trump said he had postponed signing an executive order on AI because he did not like certain aspects of it and did not want to take any steps that might undermine the US position in its AI competition with China https://reut.rs/3RmFvAZ
“The AI exec. order was postponed because David Sacks called Trump this morning and argued that having the federal government review models before their public release would slow down innovation.”
Obviously true.
Thank you David Sacks.
New: The AI exec. order was postponed because David Sacks called Trump this morning and argued that having the federal government review models before their public release would slow down innovation and harm the U.S. in its AI race with China.
David Sacks was read in on the EO this week and senior White House officials believed he was good with it.
“Then, he called POTUS this morning unbeknownst to anybody, his own staff included, and derailed it,” a senior White House official told me.
w/ @cheyennehaslett @jacob_wendler https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/21/trump-ai-order-sacks-00933295
I'm sure none of this is set in stone yet, but Axios is reporting that the current version of the AI Executive Order calls for a voluntary framework where models that qualify as being covered under the EO (probably anything equal to or above Mythos capability level) will be submitted to the government for at least 90 days for safety testing before being cleared for public release.
During this period the government will provide access to certain companies and agencies so that they can prepare their infrastructure before the model is released.
This is not that different from what is already in place. The labs already voluntarily submit models for testing. They just don't make a big deal about it. In fact there is a good chance that the real reason Gemini 3.5 Pro was not released today is because it is currently being tested. It's just the 90 day minimum number that is new. Also, voluntary will probably end up being a lot closer to "voluntary".
Politico has a draft of the AI Executive Order that was scheduled to be signed yesterday.
NEW: Read the full AI exec. order that was supposed to go out yesterday 1/
The Washington Post is reporting that the AI Executive Order will be released tomorrow.
SCOOP: The White House is sending out invites to CEOs now for an event tomorrow on the release of the much-anticipated AI executive order, according to two people familiar with the invitations.
More details on what to expect in the order in the AI & Tech brief ⬇️
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intelligence/ai-tech-brief/2026/05/20/ai-tech-brief-googles-ai-operating-system/
Ayo I didn't get an invite 😮💨🥲
SITUATION BREWING: The White House is sending invites to CEOs for an event tomorrow tied to the release of a long-awaited AI executive order, per WaPo.
Today's signing event and announcement of the AI Executive Order has been postponed to an unannounced later date for unknown reasons. Reporting by Axios.
I wasn't sure about this, but after seeing the draft, it seems the early reports on the contents of the EO were pretty accurate. So maybe this is solid as well. Someone is talking. Of course it's also possible the leaks are intentional. If the draft version of the EO really was too strong, then it seems pretty safe to say that kind of heavy regulation some people were worried about (and others wanted) won't appear until 2027 at the earliest.
The next big release window is probably the end of the year, so maybe things change then. Otherwise, regulations probably become a campaign issue for the general election.
Politico has a draft of the AI Executive Order that was scheduled to be signed yesterday.
Open Source AI Will Win
China will soon get a HUGE BOOST from the US government
The White House is planning to issue an executive order that all frontier models have to be reviewed by the government 90 days before release!!! 🤯
Now that the full EO is public, it's fair to say that many of these things in it should have just been done a long time ago, with now being better than never, and we just wasted another few days at least.
The voluntary program thing is more complicated...
NEW: Read the full AI exec. order that was supposed to go out yesterday 1/
President Trump postponed the planned AI executive order because he feared parts of it could slow US AI companies while China is racing to catch up.
"We're leading everybody, and I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead"
This Grokky is always on the ball.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intelligence/ai-tech-brief/2026/05/20/ai-tech-brief-googles-ai-operating-system/
Another opportunity for Sam and Dario to hold hands
This Grokky is always on the ball.
SITUATION ANALYSIS: Trump's draft AI executive order is narrower than expected, focused almost entirely on cybersecurity rather than broad AI regulation. The draft has not been signed and the final version may differ.
The core mechanism is a voluntary pre-release review framework. Frontier AI developers could submit models to the NSA up to 90 days before launch for security screening. Participation is explicitly voluntary, and the draft bars any mandatory licensing or pre-clearance requirement.
The NSA would gain significant new authority, leading a classified benchmarking process to designate which models qualify as "covered frontier models" subject to review. The Treasury and CISA are also involved.
Notably, the draft repeatedly references the "Department of War," the recently renamed Pentagon, signaling how deeply the administration has reframed AI as a national security issue.
The order says nothing about consumer protection, bias, or the broader regulatory questions that defined the Biden-era AI EO.
SITUATION UPDATE: Politico has obtained a draft of Trump's postponed AI executive order, which calls for a voluntary system allowing AI developers to submit frontier models for federal review up to 90 days before release. http://politico.com/news/2026/05/22/heres-a-draft-of-trumps-unsigned-ai-executive-order-00933411?_sp_pass_consent=true
This is probably the section most people will be interested in:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/heres-a-draft-of-trumps-unsigned-ai-executive-order-00933411
I'm not sure...
Trump has often indicated he thinks there should be basic guardrails in place.
Other possibilities here include 1. some parts were actually underbaked, 2. he was fed misinfo by a CEO
"I didn't like what I was seeing," Trump said of the EO. After those and other incredibly frank remarks about the EO, it's becoming clear that portions of the WH may have done a pivot on AI regulation, but Trump himself hasn't. At least not yet. Still committed to hands off
🤔
President Trump on why exec order on AI was delayed: "I didn't like certain aspects of it. I postponed it. I think it gets in the way of... you know we're leading china, we're leading everybody, and I don't want anything that's going to get in the way of that lead. We have a very substantial... on AI it's causing, it's causing tremendous good. And it's also bringing in a lot of jobs. Tremendous numbers of jobs. Again, we have more people working right now than we've ever had. I really thought that could've been a blocker, and I want to make sure that it's not."
The signing, expected today, has reportedly been postponed.
SCOOP: @POTUS is expected to sign an AI safety EO later this week, but sources say the directive won’t answer key questions about how to contain potential national security dangers from new models.
New details in @DailySignal 👇
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/20/trump-order-punt-security-concerns/
