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The Trump administration is considering an executive order requiring government review of powerful AI models before release, with NSA and intelligence agencies as oversight bodies. The move marks a sharp reversal after revoking Biden's AI safety order in January 2025.

Washington is no longer treating model distillation as a lab-level abuse problem. The White House says foreign actors, chiefly China, are using tens of thousands of proxies and jailbreaking techniques to copy US frontier AI systems and ship cheaper models that can look comparable on select benchmarks.