US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening cybersecurity defenses and establishing a voluntary framework for cooperation between the federal government and developers of advanced artificial intelligence models, reviving portions of a broader AI initiative that he abruptly shelved less than two weeks ago.
The order, “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” directs federal agencies to accelerate deployment of AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities, establish a government-industry vulnerability-sharing initiative, and create a process for evaluating the cyber capabilities of frontier AI models.
The move follows an unusual reversal by t...