The White House says its AI framework is done. It will not say what is in it.

The White House said on Monday it met its deadline to complete a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models. It will not say what the framework contains, who has seen it, or when companies will start using it. “The voluntary framework outlined in the June 2nd executive order was complete by the deadline,” a White House official said. “Discussions with industry about next steps are underway.”

The framework gives the government a structure for determining whether AI models under development would be covered by the June executive order, which created a 30-day pre-release review window for frontier models. The benchmarks used to assess cyber capabilities are classified. The threshold for which models are covered is also classified, shared only with developers “as appropriate.” The framework itself is not designated as classified, but the White House is not making it public. “Just because things are unclassified that doesn’t mean we are going to broadcast them to everyone,” the official said.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google provided feedback on a draft. The administration says it is engaging with “many more” industry partners beyond those three. A staff-level meeting with companies is scheduled for Tuesday to review the completed framework. Trump’s June executive order framed the review as voluntary, but the combination of classified benchmarks, undisclosed thresholds, and a 30-day government preview window creates a de facto gating mechanism that companies cannot publicly evaluate or challenge.

Policymakers and AI safety advocates expected to see details. They have not. The White House launched Gold Eagle this month to coordinate AI-powered cyber defence, and the model evaluation framework is the companion piece: Gold Eagle finds vulnerabilities, the framework decides which models are powerful enough to require government review before release. The question is whether a framework that nobody outside government can read, built on benchmarks nobody outside the NSA can see, qualifies as the transparency the executive order promised.