White House internal fight stalls US AI regulation after Mythos

This article was published on June 2, 2026 A “knife fight” between the Commerce Department, intelligence agencies, and pro-industry factions has stalled federal AI policy weeks after Anthropic’s Mythos threw Washington into a security panic TL;DRA three-way internal fight between the Commerce Department, intelligence agencies, and pro-industry factions has paralysed US federal AI regulation. Trump scrapped an executive order at the last minute, CAISI testing announcements were pulled from NIST’s website, and no framework exists weeks after Mythos demonstrated offensive cybersecurity capabilities. A three-way internal fight between the Commerce Department, intelligence agencies, and pro-industry factions has paralysed US federal AI regulation. Trump scrapped an executive order at the last minute, CAISI testing announcements were pulled from NIST’s website, and no framework exists weeks after Mythos demonstrated offensive cybersecurity capabilities. The Trump administration is locked in an internal battle over artificial intelligence regulation that has paralysed federal AI policy at the moment it matters most. Three factions are fighting for control: the Commerce Department, which h