New frontier of AI forces Trump’s heavy hand

(Zachary Basu, Sam Sabin, Ashley Gold – Axios) President Trump set out on his first day in office to free artificial intelligence from government constraints. 15 months later, his own White House is preparing to become a gatekeeper for the most powerful new models on Earth. AI has crossed a threshold that no administration — not even one ideologically committed to staying out of its way — can afford to ignore. It’s a sea change in both Silicon Valley and Washington, accelerated by a new class of models that can hunt down cybersecurity flaws with extraordinary speed and precision. Anthropic’s Mythos, withheld from public use due to safety concerns, was the first model to trigger panic. But with OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 now matching its capabilities and Chinese labs racing to catch up, it won’t be the last. – New frontier of AI forces Trump’s heavy hand