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Sam Ouellet
Washington bureau

Sam Ouellet

Covers the White House, Congress, and the federal AI policy beat from DC. Tracks executive orders, AI-related statutes, and the politics of the policy machine. Files from the Old Executive Office Building most days.

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Trump postpones AI executive order, says it 'gets in the way'

Order would have created a voluntary pre-release review process for advanced AI models, with federal agencies given up to 90 days for security review.

Why it matters: The postponement leaves the federal pre-release review question — central to every frontier lab's planning since the Mythos disclosure — unresolved, with no successor timeline.
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