The Trump administration has been pressing Meta to submit its most capable AI models for federal security review, leaving the company the only major US developer that has not agreed to do so, according to a New York Times report.
The push, the paper says, has come through emails as Washington steps up oversight of frontier AI. Meta has not publicly confirmed the substance of those exchanges, and the account rests on the Times’s reporting rather than any official disclosure.
The reviews are voluntary, at least in name. They would give the government a window to evaluate a model’s abilities and weaknesses, the idea being to catch threats, from help with cyberattacks to military misuse, before a system reaches wide release.
The framework was set out in an executive order Trump signed on 2 June, which invited developers to offer “covered frontier models” to the government for up to 30 days before handing them to trusted partners.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!Several of Meta’s rivals have already signed on. OpenAI and Anthropic had been working with the government on pre-release testing, and Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI agreed in May to provide early access for national-security evaluations, per the Times.
