WSJ Tech News Briefing · Wednesday, August 5, 2026
New AI guidelines from the Trump administration will exempt open-weight models developed by U.S. companies from voluntary pre-release testing. Only U.S. companies producing proprietary models with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and hacking capabilities will be required to submit them for government testing before release.
“And new AI guidelines from the Trump administration exempt open-weight models made by U.S. companies from voluntary pre-release testing.”
“According to people familiar with the matter, only makers of close proprietary U.S. models that demonstrate state-of-the-art capabilities in cybersecurity and hacking based on performance benchmarks would have to voluntarily submit those models to the government for testing before their release.”