The White House reportedly discussing vetting AI models ahead of release

The Trump administration has appartently been spooked by the cyber capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos model and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 — and is considering an Executive Order to vet new models ahead of release, Axios and the NYT reports.

These models have both been limited for their ability in cybersecurity, and point to a not-so-distant future where such capabilities might be widely available.

To that end, the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director held all of two meetings last week, with tech and cyber companies on the one hand and with trade groups in tech on the other, according to Axios.

The ONCD has also been discussing safety testing for federal AI deployments, by assessing the security exposure of AI models before rolling out to the public sector.

The NYT reported on this first, and is saying that there might be a safety review for new models, while giving the Pentagon the first shot at eventual «useful» cyber capabilities, but would not block their release.

Any discussion on «potential executive orders is speculation,» a White House official told Axios.

Read more: Axios and the New York Times.