The White House Establishes 'Eagle Plan' to Coordinate Review of Cutting-Edge AI Models by Initial Users

According to VentureBeat monitoring, the White House has established the "Gold Eagle Initiative," responsible for coordinating the discovery of AI software vulnerabilities and promoting validation, remediation, and patch distribution.

CNBC, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that this initiative may also be responsible for reviewing which companies and institutions can have early access to cutting-edge AI models. When OpenAI and Anthropic choose their initial partners in the future, they may need to obtain explicit government approval.

The U.S. government has previously been involved in the selection of initial partners for GPT-5.6, and such ad hoc arrangements may be incorporated into a unified framework in the future. The White House denied to CNBC that the government has approval authority. The White House stated that a company's participation in testing remains voluntary, and decisions on when a model is released and who it is made available to ultimately remain the choice of the company.