President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a scaled-back executive order addressing AI-driven cybersecurity threats, replacing a stricter draft he abruptly rejected just hours before a planned signing ceremony last month, according to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss the matter.
The order, signed privately, asks some AI companies to voluntarily submit powerful new models for government review 30 days before public release. An earlier draft had set that window at 90 days; some AI industry officials had pushed to shrink it to 14 days, according to Politico’s prior reporting cited in the source material.
Trump had been scheduled to sign the 90-day version on May 21, but rejected it after former AI czar David Sacks called Trump hours before the planned ceremony, at a point when the order had already received sign-off from senior White House officials and had been reviewed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
The signing followed a small, high-level White House meeting Monday on next steps for the order, the two officials and a third person familiar with the matter told Politico.
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