Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models
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Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI have agreed to let the US government review their new AI models before releasing them publicly. The Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI, the government agency overseeing AI safety standards) will conduct "pre-deployment evaluations" (testing models before they reach users) to better understand what advanced AI systems can do.
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/924017/google-microsoft-xai-government-review
First tracked: May 5, 2026 at 02:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 92%