The looming AI security executive order gets pushed back

President Donald Trump said he would postpone the release of an executive order that would set up a 90-day testing and vetting regime for frontier AI models, hours before the White House was set to publicly announce the signing. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Thursday, Trump said he opted to delay the order “because I didn’t like certain aspects of it” and expressed concerns that it could harm U.S. AI industry competition with countries like China.

The Department of Commerce signed letters of intent to distribute roughly $2 billion in federal funds to nine companies in an effort to accelerate their work related to quantum computing. The deals will also give the department a non-controlling stake in each company.