Hard Fork · Friday, August 7, 2026
The White House has finalized a framework for testing new AI models from major American companies, but has not released it publicly. Instead, they provided private briefings to AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The framework reportedly includes a voluntary 30-day window for the government to test models before public release, during which companies would be prohibited from using the models themselves.
“The White House has finalized its framework for testing new frontier AI models from the big American AI companies.”
“But it's been a very weird week because they have not released this framework.”
“And it's been rolled out in a surprisingly secretive way.”
“So according to Maria Curry from Axios, the framework gives the government a 30-day window to access frontier models before they are released publicly.”