The White House now says its AI review framework was done on time — it's just secret
A June executive order gave the US government 60 days — until August 1 — to stand up a voluntary pre-release review process for frontier AI models, with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and xAI agreeing to take part. The deadline passed with no framework made public, even as the three biggest labs jointly submitted revisions to the draft and Sam Altman visited the White House. (Correction: on August 3 the White House said the framework was in fact completed by the deadline but will not be published — its testing benchmarks are classified — and invited staff from the big AI labs to review it behind closed doors.)
Why it mattersThis would be Washington's first concrete mechanism for reviewing powerful AI models before they ship. The secrecy — and the fact that the biggest labs are helping write the rules they will be judged by — shows how hard it is to regulate an industry that moves faster than its regulators.
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