Trump delays AI defense plan, says language ‘would be a barrier’

President Donald Trump has delayed signing an executive order that would allow the government to review AI models before they are released.

Trump said he was not happy with the language of the plan: “I didn’t like some of it,” he told White House reporters. “We are leading China, we are leading everyone, and I don’t want to do anything that will interfere with leading.”

The unofficial reason: Not enough tech CEOs may be heading to Washington, DC soon, according to several reports. And is the executive order signed without a photo?

The proposed legislation would have given the Office of the National Cyber ​​​​​​Director and other agencies the ability to develop a process to review AI models for security before they are released. This is partly in response to concerns about the release of Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber ​​- both of which can quickly find and exploit security threats.

One of the main sticking points in the EO language, at CNNit is necessary for AI companies to share advanced models with the government between 14 and 90 days before they start.

Trump said he was concerned that the language in today’s EO “could be a deterrent.”