Trump administration releases scaled-back AI executive order

The White House issued a revised executive order on artificial intelligence that emphasizes a voluntary framework for companies to provide access to frontier models (now for "up to" 30 days), explicitly avoids mandatory licensing, and assigns Treasury, CISA, NSA and others roles in a voluntary cybersecurity clearinghouse and classified benchmarking. The order reduces federal oversight compared with earlier drafts, includes confidentiality and IP protections for testing, and has prompted debate about implementation, potential politicization, and whether it adequately addresses risks to critical infrastructure.