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Remember when the Trump administration called AI a “beautiful baby” that shouldn’t be restrained by “foolish rules”? That was July 2025. Ten months later, the same White House is drawing up plans to vet AI models before they reach the public. The policy whiplash is real. And it has a name: Mythos. One Model Changed the Entire Conversation Anthropic introduced Mythos Preview in April 2026 — then refused to release it publicly. The model demonstrated an unprecedented ability to discover high-severity security vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser, outperforming all but the most elite human hackers. ...

The same administration that revoked Biden’s AI executive order on Day One is now considering something arguably more interventionist: mandatory government review of AI models before they hit the public. If that sounds like whiplash, buckle up. What’s on the Table According to the New York Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg, the White House is discussing an executive order that would create a formal review process for new AI models before release. The NSA, Office of the National Cyber Director, and Director of National Intelligence would oversee evaluations — granting the government early access to frontier models without necessarily blocking their deployment. ...

The White House did something Friday that Silicon Valley has been begging for since ChatGPT went viral: it published a legislative blueprint for a single, unified national AI policy. The four-page document — the “National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” — tells Congress to override state-level AI regulations, protect children online, streamline energy permitting for data centers, and safeguard free speech from AI-powered censorship. It’s not a law. It’s a wishlist. But it’s the most concrete signal yet about what federal AI regulation might actually look like — and the implications are enormous. ...