The AI Daily Brief · Wednesday, August 5, 2026
The White House, through the Office of the National Cyber Director, has introduced a new safety testing framework for AI models. Representatives from leading AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google attended a meeting to discuss it, but details about the framework, including the exact guest list and criteria for 'state-of-the-art' models, are being kept confidential. Even companies not invited to the meeting will not be informed about the policy.
“Representatives from the leading AI companies attended a meeting with the White House Office of the National Cyber Director on Tuesday to discuss the new framework, but there are very strict limits on who gets to know anything about it.”
“Companies are invited, quote-unquote, to submit frontier models to the government ahead of releases for a maximum of 30 days of safety testing.”
“In fact, even AI companies that weren't invited to the meeting won't be told about the policy.”