Scoop: Trump AI executive order seeks early government access to frontier models

The White House plans to release its much-discussed executive order on cybersecurity and AI safety as soon as this week, sources familiar with the matter told Axios. Why it matters: In its current form, the order seeks to bolster cybersecurity around advanced AI models and outlines plans for a voluntary framework for AI developers to inform the government about new releases, according to a readout shared with Axios and confirmed by a second source familiar with the plans. The big picture: Should the plan work as intended, the Trump White House will have made good on its promise to address AI safety after the latest cyber-capable models like Anthropic's Mythos spooked the government. Still, the measures described to Axios are far short of what some more hardline voices in Washington and across the country have been pushing at a time when anti-AI sentiment is rising. The Mythos conundrum has softened the Trump administration's full-speed-ahead approach to AI, but the convoluted process a