U.S. model-testing rules stay under wraps

Heise reports that the White House Office of the National Cyber Director, answering a Freedom of Information Act case, released some documents about the pre-release review of especially powerful models and continued to withhold the full testing rules and the complete list of “trusted partners.” The review comes from Executive Order 14409, signed in June 2026. Developers may, if they choose, give the government access up to 30 days before a planned release. The order says this is not a mandatory license or a permit.

The withheld part is the lock. A test that decides who may hold a model, and a list of who sees it early, are a ranking. A ranking the public cannot read cannot be appealed. The order’s own sentence, that none of this is a permit, is the fact a Lyra reading would use: a short review before release can be a shield for critical systems. A shield with the rule hidden fails that reading too. The coordinate is the missing text of the test.