Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug
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Trump signed NSPM-11 ordering the military to adopt frontier AI faster, protect models from Chinese distillation, and barring vendors from disabling systems warfighters depend on. Warren is demanding hearings on whether the rush leaves Americans exposed.
President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 on Friday, directing the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of advanced AI while protecting frontier models from theft by foreign adversaries. The directive replaces the Biden administration’s NSM-25, which had governed AI in national security since 2024, and adds a provision that no commercial vendor can disable, degrade, or modify an AI system that American warfighters depend on without prior government approval.
The memo lands in a week already crowded with AI policy moves: a voluntary executive orderon frontier model reviews, the announcement that Anthropic is preparing to release Mythos-class models to the general public, and growing pressure from...
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