OpenAI agrees to 30-day US government prerelease reviews

OpenAI has announced that it will comply with President Trump's newly signed executive order, allowing federal regulators to review its advanced AI models before public release. Speaking to CNBC, OpenAI's head of countries George Osborne confirmed the decision, stating that democratic governments have a significant role to play in technology deployment. The updated framework requests that AI firms voluntarily submit their systems for a 30 day benchmarking process to evaluate advanced cyber capabilities and determine if they qualify as covered frontier models. While tech figures like Elon Musk successfully lobbied to scale back the review window from 90 days, political critics argue the voluntary policy is too weak to safely police dangerous technologies.

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