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The executive order comes after President Donald Trump last month postponed a measure to address AI-driven cyber threats.
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, on April 30, 2026. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a scaled-back executive order that seeks to address the cybersecurity threats of artificial intelligence — but with less-advanced government scrutiny than the White House had been set to impose last month, according to two White House officials familiar with the matter and two people with direct knowledge who were all granted anonymity to discuss it.
The order, signed privately, asks some AI companies to submit their powerful new models to a voluntary government review 30 days before releasing them to the public. An earlier draft of the document had called for a voluntary review of as much as 90 days in advance, a provision that some AI industry officials had pushed to whittle to 14 days, POLITICO reported last month.
