White House sets a 30-day frontier-model window

The White House says it completed a voluntary review framework that can give the federal government access to covered frontier models for up to 30 days before release, though the capability threshold remains classified and the framework itself has not been published. Axios reports that Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google commented on a draft, while Executive Order 14409 defines the early-access window and explicitly bars mandatory licensing or preclearance. The move advances the pre-deployment regime anticipated in Washington’s earlier agreements with five frontier labs; model builders should keep auditable release evaluations and a one-month government-access contingency on file even before the covered-model line becomes public.