AI Policy
May 21 – May 22, 2026 Updated May 22
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Trump signs AI executive order requiring 90-day pre-release access to frontier models
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday establishing a voluntary framework under which AI developers will share new frontier models with the federal government and critical-infrastructure operators 90 days before public release. Top executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft attended the Oval Office signing.
Trump indefinitely postpones AI executive order after tech-CEO lobbying
President Trump told reporters last Thursday that he had decided to indefinitely postpone an executive order on AI oversight, even as tech CEOs invited to a White House signing ceremony were already en route to Washington. The order would have created a voluntary 90-day pre-release testing regime for advanced AI models.