A new federal clearinghouse will coordinate AI-driven cybersecurity responses across energy, finance, and other critical sectors. Officials say it will reduce duplicate work and speed vulnerability fixes.
The White House announces the creation of a new AI-powered cybersecurity clearinghouse, whose aim is to coordinate the protection of the nation’s critical infrastructure.
Industry and critical infrastructure are racing to keep up with the pace of AI model development, as models become increasingly adept at identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities in cyber systems. Some AI companies have held back their most advanced models from broad release to give key partners time to fix vulnerabilities before a general rollout.
Gold Eagle – the name of this clearinghouse – is a joint project between the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Pentagon. Companies operating in the fields of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, as well as providers of critical infrastructure, including energy supply and the banking sector, will be able to join the platform for joint communication and coordination of efforts.
These new capabilities allow vulnerabilities to be detected at scales not seen before.
– Senior White House official
The clearinghouse’s aim is to avoid conflicts in actions and wasted resources, verify vulnerabilities, and direct efforts toward their priority remediation with the help of industry teams and government specialists.
Eliminating conflicts between actions and ensuring that resources are not wasted; fixing or scanning the same vulnerabilities that are verified; and then the industry teams and government engineers will work on triage, prioritization, and remediation of these vulnerabilities.
– Senior White House official
Regulatory framework and next steps
The announcement of the clearinghouse meets the requirements of the executive order signed in June by President Donald Trump.
The order also provides for a system by which AI companies must submit leading models for review by the federal government 30 days before their release to trusted partners. The framework is to be in place by the start of August, but publicly it has not yet been released.
Instead, the White House has already used other tools to limit the release of new AI models – namely export controls on Anthropic, which were subsequently lifted, and a request to OpenAI to limit the release of the latest model. Such actions drew numerous calls for more consistent regulation of the industry.
CNN correspondent Sean Lyngaas contributed to preparing this material.
It is expected that the Gold Eagle clearinghouse will bolster coordination between the government and the private sector in the realms of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
