Trump Delays AI Security Executive Order Release

President Trump has postponed the release of an executive order concerning AI security. He stated this decision was made because he "didn’t like certain aspects of it." The order aimed to establish a 90-day testing and vetting process for frontier AI models. Trump also expressed worries that the order could harm the U.S. AI industry's competition with countries like China. A draft version of the order, which was circulating, would have set up a voluntary testing regime. This would have allowed the government to study new AI models for 90 days before their public release. The draft also planned to give cybersecurity testers in critical sectors, like finance and healthcare, access to these models. This delay means the timeline for AI security regulations remains uncertain.