Trump AI order with voluntary model review ends weeks of speculation
By Emma Whitford ( June 2, 2026, 19:07 GMT | Insight) -- US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at hardening cyber defenses and assessing frontier artificial intelligence models, featuring a voluntary path for predeployment review. The order came without fanfare, less than two weeks after Trump postponed its release citing concerns about stifling innovation.US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at hardening cyber defenses and assessing frontier artificial intelligence models, featuring a voluntary path for predeployment review. The order came without fanfare, less than two weeks after Trump postponed its release citing concerns about stifling innovation....
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