The US government is negotiating voluntary standards with AI companies covering how new models get released, according to the Financial Times, with an announcement said to be possible within the next week.
The standards would reportedly set benchmarks and timelines for advanced models, while clarifying who gets access to them inside the US and abroad.
The talks build on an executive order Trump signed in June, which asked developers to give the government early access to frontier models before wider release.
That order stopped well short of a mandatory regime, and the version that emerged was already a retreat from an earlier draft with a much longer review window, as we have reported.
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!Getting there took months of infighting. A three-way turf battle between the Commerce Department, national security officials and pro-industry aides had stalled a tougher version of the order weeks earlier, after Trump scrapped its signing over fears it would slow American AI development.
