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Policy2026-08-02 · source-backed
Executive Order 14409 gave the government 60 days to produce three things: a classified frontier-model cyber benchmarking process from NSA/CISA/NIST, a voluntary frontier AI disclosure framework, and an OPM federal cyber workforce plan. As of 00:00Z August 1 there were no Federal Register notices, no NIST or CISA publications, no OSTP statement. Only GOLD EAGLE, the AI cybersecurity clearinghouse launched July 14, is operational. Altman met White House chief of staff Wiles on July 29 ahead of the date; Huang was on Capitol Hill arguing for open models. The deadline bound the government, not the labs: but the framework is what OpenAI's Astra work is supposed to be reviewed under.
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He met Republican and Democratic senators, briefed them on OpenAI's next model family, and publicly backed Congress passing AI legislation. He also told reporters he'd spoken with White House officials about the need to slow AI development, and is meeting chief of staff Susie...
About a dozen companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta met White House staff in a roughly 30-minute session closing two months of negotiation from Trump's June AI cybersecurity executive order. Administered by CAISI inside NIST, it asks developers of covered fron...
The company published "Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities" on August 19, disclosing the pause on its latest deployment-bound models while it hardened and red-teamed research environments. The trigger was an unreleased model, Astra, plus a July in...
Each is meeting the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, with Warner's spokesperson declining to state an agenda. The meetings follow OpenAI's July 21 disclosure of the containment failures, which prompted lawmakers to float an "AI Kill Switch Act" giving federal a...
Bloomberg reported July 22 that Altman will brief the administration and US lawmakers ahead of release, as officials finalize a federal frontier-safety review framework expected within weeks (via Claims Journal). OpenAI's global public affairs chief previewed the models as hav...
The Register covers White House discussions about taking equity in AI labs, possibly seeding a Public Wealth Fund with returns flowing to households. Neither lab is profitable, which is the part the framing keeps stressing. The concept traces to Altman's early-2025 pitch and O...
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