Advances in AI Prompt White House to Reconsider Addressing Risks

The arrival of a new generation of powerful artificial intelligence models, like Anthropic’s Mythos, has begun to crack the White House’s hard-line stance on promoting the technology, as top officials confront security risks posed by tools that can easily find flaws long buried in computer code. President Donald Trump’s team is considering an executive order to tackle those risks, and National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett compared the approach this week to how the FDA tests new drugs “so that they’re released to the wild after they’ve been proven safe.”