Trump to Require AI Firms to Share Models 90 Days Before Release

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as Thursday establishing a voluntary framework requiring AI developers to provide advanced models to the federal government 90 days before public release, according to sources familiar with the matter. The framework would also ask companies to give pre-public access to critical infrastructure providers such as banks. The White House was working to get AI company CEOs to attend a signing ceremony with Trump, another source said. The order represents a middle ground in an intensifying debate between Trump's populist supporters and the tech industry. MAGA activists including former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and political organizer Amy Kremer have been pressing the administration to require AI developers to submit their most capable models for mandatory government security tests, citing risks from powerful new systems like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber. On the other side, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and former Trump AI adviser David Sacks, who stepped down in March and now co-chairs the president's tech advisory committee, have resisted mandatory requirements. The debate has been shaped by warnings from AI companies that new models could supercharge complex cyberattacks, though some cybersecurity executives have said those fears are overblown. The executive order resulted from work by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Science and Technology Adviser Michael Kratsios, Deputy Chief of Staff Walker Barrett, and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross over the past month. Republicans have traditionally opposed government regulations, but support for AI guardrails is growing among populist factions. Tech executives, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai, and OpenAI's Sam Altman, have been among Trump's largest political donors and sat front and center at his January 2025 inauguration. Companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic have already been voluntarily submitting their models for federal scrutiny through the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation. The National Security Agency has been involved in administration-wide discussions about how to respond to advanced AI capabilities.