The White House is establishing a new AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to help coordinate cybersecurity defenses across critical infrastructure.
Industries and critical infrastructures are racing to keep pace with new AI models with increasingly advanced capabilities that can find and exploit (but also defend against) cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Some AI companies have even held off releasing their most advanced models to give key partners time to fix vulnerabilities before the models are generally available.
The White House clearinghouse, called Gold Eagle, is a joint project of the Treasury Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. AI and cybersecurity companies, as well as critical infrastructure providers such as utilities and banks, will use the platform to communicate and coordinate their efforts.
“These new capabilities enable the discovery of vulnerabilities on a scale we have never seen before,” a senior White House official told reporters during a briefing on Tuesday.
The goal of the new clearinghouse is to “eliminate conflicts and ensure that resources are not wasted by remediating or scanning the same vulnerabilities, validating those vulnerabilities,” the official added, “and then a team of industry and government engineers working to triage, prioritize and remediate those vulnerabilities.”
The White House declined to specify which companies are involved in this project, describing them as “open source software partners and American critical infrastructure companies.” The source code of open source software is publicly available so anyone can use it freely view, use, modify and distribute. The best-known AI models from companies like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are closed-source models.
Open source software is ubiquitous, but is often run by volunteers who may not have the money or time to secure the code.
In 2021, a critical flaw in open source software left hundreds of millions of devices around the world vulnerable to hacking and prompted a frantic response from Biden administration officials.
The clearinghouse announced Tuesday is a requirement established by an executive order President Donald Trump signed in June.
This executive order also requires a system for AI companies Submit advanced models to the federal government for review up to 30 days before release to other “trusted partners.” The framework, which must be established by early August, has not yet been publicly defined.
However, The White House has already restricted the release of new AI models in other ways, such as an export control ban on Anthropic that was eventually lifted. The White House also asked OpenAI to limit the release of its latest model.
The seemingly arbitrary approach to regulating new model releases has led to widespread calls from the AI industry for more consistent regulation.
CNN’s Sean Lyngaas contributed to this report.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/tech/ai-cybersecurity-clearing-house-white-house
