President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that quietly marks a shift in his administration’s approach to artificial intelligence. No public ceremony. No bold declarations from the Oval Office. Just a private act that gives federal agencies up to 30 days to review the most powerful new AI models before companies release them more widely. The order directs the departments of Treasury, Defense, Commerce and Homeland Security to secure voluntary agreements with AI developers. It calls for classified benchmarks to assess national security implications. And it tasks Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with coordinating an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse to scan software for flaws uncovered by these systems. Banks, utilities and hospitals sit high on the list of worried infrastructure operators. From Hands-Off to Measured Caution Trump had postponed a more ambitious version of this directive just weeks earlier. That draft called for a 90-day review window. Industry pushed back hard.…