The Trump administration is turning up the heat on Meta, pushing the company to submit its AI models for federal safety reviews before releasing them to the public. It’s a notable ask from an administration that, not long ago, was busy tearing down Biden-era AI guardrails in the name of innovation.
Here’s the thing: Meta is increasingly the odd one out. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and xAI have already committed to or begun participating in the review process. Meta, the company behind the open-source Llama family of models, has so far not joined the club.
What the executive order actually requires
President Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary review framework for advanced AI models. The process is straightforward in concept: companies submit their most powerful AI models to federal agencies for a 30-day review period before making them publicly available.
The reviews carry a cybersecurity focus, which makes sense given what prompted them. Discussions around the policy began in May 2026, following briefings that reportedly highlighted concerning capabilities in Anthropic’s Mythos model. That model demonstrated an ability to exploit advanced vulnerabilities, the kind of capability that tends to get national security officials’ attention very quickly.
