White House eyes voluntary AI model reviews in sweeping policy order

The White House is drafting an executive order to tighten AI oversight by creating a coalition of federal agencies to scrutinize frontier AI models, using a voluntary 90-day pre-release review, with sections on cybersecurity and model benchmarking; it would require 30 days to secure networks and to expand federal AI use, plus a Treasury-led voluntary industry clearinghouse to patch vulnerabilities, and a 60-day process to define what counts as a frontier model, with NSA/NIST involvement, an OPM push to hire AI talent, and it could land as soon as Thursday amid industry tensions over advanced systems like Mythos.