Administration officials told Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI this week that the voluntary pre-release security review covers proprietary frontier systems only — a decision Anthropic has spent a year arguing against.
Aug 6, 2026
Executive Order 14409 gave the administration 60 days to design a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced models. The deadline was 1 August. The announcement came on 3 August, and the document itself remains unreleased.
Aug 4, 2026
An announcement could come within days: benchmarks, release timelines and access rules for frontier models — a framework a former White House adviser already calls licensing by another name.
Jul 7, 2026
