{"slug": "trump-administration-to-review-closed-ai-models-before-release-after-meeting", "title": "Trump administration to review \"closed\" AI models before release after meeting with tech leaders", "summary": "The Trump administration met with tech leaders on Tuesday to finalize a security review process for advanced AI models before release, but it will reportedly apply only to closed models from developers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The move exempts open models from competitors such as Meta, Nvidia, DeepSeek, and Moonshot, aiming to maintain US competitiveness with China, but critics like Martijn Rasser of the Special Competitive Studies Project argue the US still lacks a statutory, predictable process for evaluating frontier AI security.", "body_md": "## Trump administration to review \"closed\" AI models before release after meeting with tech leaders\n\nWashington DC - **The Trump administration on Tuesday met with **[tech](https://www.tag24.com/en/tech)** leaders to finalize a security review process for advanced AI models before their release, though it will reportedly apply only to \"closed\" models.**\n\nIt remains unclear when – or if – the White House will release the details of the process or how it will be implemented and enforced.\n\nAccording to Axios, the review process will only apply to closed models that are tightly controlled by their developers. Major closed model developers include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.\n\nBy contrast, Meta and Nvidia are developing \"open\" models that can be downloaded and updated directly by users. Open models are made by competitors in China, including DeepSeek and Moonshot, as well as Mistral in France.\n\nTuesday's [meeting at the White House](https://www.tag24.com/en/news/politics/us-politics/trump-sets-white-house-meeting-with-top-ai-execs-amid-push-for-government-regulation-3521382) reportedly included OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta.\n\nThe move to exempt open models is likely aimed at helping the US stay competitive with China.\n\nHowever, there is a \"deeper problem,\" according to Martijn Rasser, vice president for technology at the Special Competitive Studies Project, a think tank founded and chaired by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.\n\n**\"The United States still lacks a statutory, predictable process for evaluating the security of frontier AI models,\" Rasser wrote in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, adding that a voluntary framework applying only to closed models \"concentrates the uncertainty\" on a handful of companies.**\n\n### Fears of increased AI security risks\n\nThe rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has created a sense of urgency in the US to develop regulations that mitigate and prevent risks associated with the technology.\n\nHowever, the Trump administration has favored a light-touch, deregulatory approach to most industries, including tech.\n\nIn June, Trump[ signed an executive order](https://www.tag24.com/en/news/politics/politicians/donald-trump/trump-gives-government-access-to-powerful-ai-models-with-new-executive-order-3503761) that called for major AI developers to submit new models to the government for review 30 days before they are publicly released. It also gave the federal government a 60-day deadline to finalize a proposed framework.\n\nThat deadline passed on August 1 without any public announcement.\n\nRecent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by software from OpenAI and Anthropic have raised concerns about the capabilities of advanced AI models.\n\nOn July 21, OpenAI confirmed that its software [escaped a testing environment](https://www.tag24.com/en/tech/openai-reveals-cyberattack-caused-by-rogue-ai-agent-was-worse-than-initially-reported-3520116) and attacked another company, Hugging Face. About a week later, it said the models had also targeted three additional companies.\n\nThen on July 30, Anthropic revealed that it also [found three incidents](https://www.tag24.com/en/tech/anthropic-reports-another-ai-testing-scare-as-model-gains-unauthorized-real-world-access-3520463) where AI models being tested \"gained unauthorized access\" to unnamed organizations.\n\nTrump urged a balanced approach that addresses AI security risks while maintaining US competitiveness.\n\n\"We have to be careful in both ways. We don't want to restrict them where all of a sudden we come in second to China,\" he told reporters in the Oval Office last week.\n\n**In recent months, DeepSeek and Moonshot have developed their own powerful new models that have reignited fears about US competitiveness in AI.**\n\nCover photo: ALEX WROBLEWSKI / AFP", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-administration-to-review-closed-ai-models-before-release-after-meeting", "canonical_source": "https://www.tag24.com/en/tech/trump-administration-to-review-closed-ai-models-before-release-after-meeting-with-tech-leaders-3521719", "published_at": "2026-08-05 07:42:48+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-05 08:56:32.809686+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Trump administration", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google", "Meta", "Nvidia", "DeepSeek", "Moonshot"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-administration-to-review-closed-ai-models-before-release-after-meeting", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-administration-to-review-closed-ai-models-before-release-after-meeting.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-administration-to-review-closed-ai-models-before-release-after-meeting.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trump-administration-to-review-closed-ai-models-before-release-after-meeting.jsonld"}}