The White House on July 12, 2026.
See all topics
The White House is establishing a new AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to help coordinate cybersecurity defenses across critical infrastructure
Industries and critical infrastructure are racing to catch up with new AI models with increasingly advanced abilities that can find and exploit (but also defend against) cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Some AI companies have even held off widely releasing their most advanced models to allow key partners time to patch vulnerabilities before the models are widely available
The White House’s clearinghouse, dubbed Gold Eagle, is a joint project across the Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. AI and cybersecurity companies, along with critical infrastructure providers like utilities and banks, will use the platform to communicate and coordinate their efforts
“These new capabilities make vulnerability discovery at a scale … that we have not seen before,” a senior White House official told reporters during a briefing on Tuesday
The goal of the new clearinghouse is to “deconflict and make sure reerabilities, that those vulnerabilities are validated,” the official added, “and then a team of industry and government engineers are working to triage, prioritize and fix those vulnerabilities.”
The White House declined to specify which companies are part of this project, describing them as “open-nies.” Open-e to freelyview, use, modify and distribute it. The most well-known AI models from companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, are closed-source
Open- not have the money and time to secure the code
In 2021, a critical bug in open-ld vulnerable to hacking and triggered a frantic response from Biden administration officials
The clearinghouse announced Tuesday is a requirement established by an executive order that President Donald Trump signed in June
That executive order also requires a system for AI companies tosubmit advanced models to the federal government for review up to 30 days before they’re released to other “trusted partners.” The framework, which must be established by early August, hasn’t publicly established yet
However, the White House has already limited the release of new AI models through other means, like an export control ban on Anthropic that was eventually lifted. The White House also asked OpenAI to limit the release of its latest model
The seemingly haphazard approach to regulating new model releases has led to widespread calls from the AI industry for more consistent regulation
CNN’s Sean Lyngaas contributed to this report
See all topics
