President Trump to sign executive order on AI and cybersecurity Thursday

The White House is preparing to drop a new executive order that would reshape how AI companies bring powerful models to market. The core requirement: developers would need to share their AI models with the federal government a full 90 days before releasing them to the public.

The proposed executive order targets the intersection of AI development and national security, specifically cybersecurity risks posed by increasingly capable AI models. The concern isn’t theoretical. As AI systems grow more powerful, so does their potential for misuse in offensive cyber operations, from automating vulnerability discovery to generating sophisticated phishing campaigns at scale.

The framework is being described as voluntary rather than mandatory. The 90-day pre-release sharing requirement is the headline provision, but it sits within a broader strategy. The goal is to give federal agencies enough lead time to assess whether new AI models introduce national security vulnerabilities before they’re deployed in the wild.

The order is reportedly still under discussion, meaning the final version could look different from what’s been circulated.

A pattern of AI executive orders

This isn’t Trump’s first move on AI governance. On January 23, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14179, which was designed to promote US leadership in artificial intelligence. That order took a distinctly different tone from Biden-era AI policy, rolling back certain directives from the previous administration that the Trump White House viewed as overly restrictive on innovation.

Then on June 6, 2025, a separate cybersecurity executive order followed. That one zeroed in on secure software development practices and explicitly addressed AI’s role in cyber defense.

The upcoming order represents a third piece of the puzzle. Where the January order was about posture and the June order was about defense, this one is about oversight. It’s the first time the administration has moved toward requiring developers to loop in the government before releasing new models.

What this means for investors

The executive order doesn’t mention any specific crypto tokens or blockchain protocols. A 90-day sharing requirement, even a voluntary one, introduces friction into the AI release cycle. For publicly traded AI companies, that could mean delayed product launches, additional compliance costs, and potential uncertainty around what the government might flag during its review window.

Decentralized AI projects, which are proliferating across multiple blockchain ecosystems, operate in a fundamentally different paradigm than centralized AI labs. It’s unclear how a voluntary sharing framework would apply to open-source or decentralized AI model development, where there’s no single corporate entity to submit a model for review. That ambiguity is worth watching closely as the final text of the order takes shape.

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