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. Why it matters: 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…
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