The White House told labs open-weight models won't be safety-tested, with Chinese releases explicitly exempt.

In a closed-door August 4 meeting with staff from Meta, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia and OpenAI, administration officials said open-weight models fall outside government testing under the new framework (Bloomberg/Reuters). Five Democratic senators responded the same day calling for legislation making frontier testing permanent, warning the US "cannot afford to create a policy environment in which the most advanced American AI systems are subject to opaque, case-by-case restrictions while Chinese alternatives appear cheaper, easier to access, and more predictable to deploy." Same day as the AISI report on agents attacking real infrastructure.