The postponed EO draft leaks — Axios publishes the text, exposing exactly what the accelerationist camp killed Thursday

Axios published the full draft of the AI executive order Trump postponed signing Thursday. The text reveals the order would have created a formal 90-day federal preview window, an OSTP-led capability review board, and a procurement-conditional safety attestation regime. The leaked draft makes legible what the accelerationist camp inside the administration actually objected to — far more structural than the public 'I didn't like certain aspects' line suggested.

The published draft is the most consequential primary source of the week. The 90-day window the AM news cycle treated as headline framing turns out to have been the least binding piece. The order also would have stood up a permanent OSTP-led review board with authority to escalate findings to NSC, conditioned federal procurement on lab-side safety attestations, and instructed agencies to develop AI-enabled defensive capabilities in partnership with private labs. That last provision is structurally close to a federal version of Anthropic's Project Glasswing consortium.

For lab procurement teams, the leaked draft is the basis for modeling what the next iteration of the EO will look like. Whatever softer version the administration negotiates with the accelerationist faction probably preserves the OSTP-review and procurement-conditional pieces — those are what the national-security-aligned staffers cared about — but loses the 90-day window. The new operational read: lab safety attestations enter federal procurement in 2026 H2 whether an EO signs or not. See our analysis →.

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