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Trump administration launches Gold Eagle AI cybersecurity clearinghouse

The Gold Eagle initiative will pair an intake platform with a separate system for secure vulnerability sharing, targeting weaknesses in open-source software.

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The Trump administration has unveiled a new industry clearinghouse, called Gold Eagle, aimed at improving coordination on AI-related cybersecurity risks, with a focus on detecting and patching network vulnerabilities in open-source software, according to Insurance Journal. National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross briefed reporters on July 14, describing Gold Eagle as a mechanism for exchanging information about potential vulnerabilities, and as part of the AI executive order issued by President Donald Trump last month. The plan includes collaboration with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University to build an intake platform where companies can voluntarily submit their advanced models for evaluation. A separate system, the Vulnerability Information and Coordination Environment, would handle dissemination so software defects can be fixed through secure sharing of vulnerability information, Cairncross said. The clearinghouse will also include open-source scanning. The initiative follows earlier debate over how much federal oversight should apply to powerful AI models, and it comes after recent steps that restricted releases by Anthropic and OpenAI, before later lifting foreign access limits for some Anthropic models after added cybersecurity guardrails.

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