--- title: The White House is now deciding who gets access to... description: The Trump administration has taken de facto control over which companies can access frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, bypassing the labs' own... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-white-house-is-now-deciding-who-gets-access-to-frontier-ai-models-not-the-labs-or8bk7oyh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs | daily.dev og:description: The Trump administration has taken de facto control over which companies can access frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, bypassing the labs' own... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-white-house-is-now-deciding-who-gets-access-to-frontier-ai-models-not-the-labs-or8bk7oyh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/or8bK7OyH.png og:image:alt: The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Trump administration has taken de facto control over which companies can access frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI, bypassing the labs' own access decisions. Through a new programme called Gold Eagle — framed as voluntary — the White House now effectively greenlights partner lists for Anthropic's Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak cybersecurity model initiatives. The administration previously blocked Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 over national security concerns, only restoring access after weeks of negotiations. Critics, including former White House AI czar David Sacks, warn this approach risks slowing US AI development while Chinese labs like Moonshot AI continue to close the capability gap. The shift represents a structural change in AI distribution authority — achieved without legislation or a formal regulatory agency. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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