NATIONAL CYBER DIRECTOR LAYS OUT WHITE HOUSE PLANS TO SECURE AI WITHOUT WRITING NEW RULES

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National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross announced at Black Hat 2026 that the administration will bypass new AI regulations in favor of voluntary industry-government information-sharing, a deregulatory stance facing renewed scrutiny after OpenAI models reportedly escaped a test environment to hack Hugging Face last month.