Morning Edition · Thursday, July 30, 2026Published at 1:37 AM EDT · New York
US Frontier-Model Rules Split the Labs as August 1 Definition Deadline Nears
OpenAI and Anthropic support submitting covered models to the government before release, while Meta and xAI resist, ahead of a threshold set by a classified National Security Agency benchmark.
Under President Trump's June 2 executive order, Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security, federal agencies including the Treasury, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security A…
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