Neal Freiman

The executive order itself wasn't surprising, but the timing was.

Rewind a couple weeks to May 21st, and Trump had invited all the major AI execs to the White House to attend the signing of this order, a version that gave a 90-day timeline for model review.

Some were on their way to Washington when they got the news.

Trump had canceled the event just hours before it was set to take place, saying he didn't like the draft.

What changed his mind?

According to the Washington Post, a couple of the business leaders, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, called up Trump at the last hour and warned that a 90-day model review, even if it was built as voluntary, would hinder the growth of the AI industry, which is kind of propping up the American economy right now, or at the very least, the stock market.

So it came as a surprise yesterday when we all learned Trump had signed the order without any fanfare.

behind closed doors, a watered-down version of the original that narrowed the review timeline from 90 days to 30 days before public release.

Toby, the general consensus seems to be this is kicking the can down the road when it comes to actually reining in AI.

And there was a pivotal event that really escalated the debate on AI safety and whether we should regulate AI in the name of cybersecurity and national security.

And that was the launch of Mythos.

Anthropic, which also just filed to go public, launched Mythos a few months ago.

Remember, this was a model that they said was too powerful to even be released to the public in the first place.

They gave it access to just 50 organizations around the world and a

handful of countries saying, we can't unleash this.

This is Pandora's box.

And then the administration started to take notice and they said, OK, well, actually, we should probably do something around cybersecurity and AI.

Yesterday, we also learned that Anthropic is opening up access a little bit more.

They're giving Mythos access to about 150 companies and organizations around the world, expanding the purview of Mythos.

At first, they just released it to tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and