About a week ago, the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) announced a deal with the AI companies Microsoft, xAI, and Google that allowed the government to inspect unreleased AI models before they’re released to the general public. Anthropic and OpenAI signed something similar way back in 2024.
Here’s a long excerpt from the government’s announcement, dated May 5, 2026:
“Today, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI. Through these expanded industry collaborations, CAISI will conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security. These agreements build on previously announced partnerships, which have been renegotiated to reflect CAISI’s directives from the secretary of commerce and America’s AI Action Plan.”
But that excerpt had to be pulled from the Wayback Machine because that announcement is currently missing from the CAISI website. Reuters seems to have been the first to notice this, writing on Monday afternoon that using the original url revolved to an error page that said “Sorry, we cannot find that page,” and then later, redirected to the main CAISI page on the Commerce Department website. As of this writing on Monday night, the url is still a redirect to the CAISI page.
“These agreements support information-sharing,” the archived announcement says, along with “ensuring a clear understanding in government of AI capabilities and the state of international AI competition.”
Gizmodo requested comment from the White House and Commerce Department on Monday evening, but did not immediately hear back. We will update this article if we receive a reply.
