About a week agoThe Commerce Department’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has announced an agreement with AI companies Microsoft, xAI, and Google to allow the government to test unreleased AI models before they are released to the public. Anthropic and OpenAI He signed something similar in 2024.
A long extract from the Government announcement of 5 May 2026:
“Today, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced new contracts with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI. Through these expanded industry collaborations, CAISI will conduct targeted research to better assess AI capabilities at the frontier and in this contract. announced before Partnerships renegotiated to reflect CAISI’s guidance from the commerce secretary and America’s AI Action Plan.
But it was necessary to remove this fragment from the Wayback Machine because that ad is not currently available on the CAISI website. Reuters seems to have noticed this firstOn Monday afternoon, using the original url, he wrote that he was redirected to an error page that said, “Sorry, we can’t find that page,” and then redirected to the main CAISI page on the Commerce Department’s website. As of this writing Monday night, the url is still a redirect to the CAISI page.
“These agreements support information sharing while ensuring a clear understanding of AI capabilities in government and the state of international AI competition,” the archived announcement said.
Gizmodo sought comment from the White House and the Commerce Department on Monday evening, but did not immediately receive a response. We will update this article if we receive a response.
