US tech outlet WIRED, citing sources, reports the White House will expand an AI safety-testing framework requiring federal safety tests of frontier models before public release. The framework, announced this month but not yet public or detailed, currently covers closed-source models from Anthropic and OpenAI; officials expect it to include open-source models within months once they reach 'frontier' capability comparable to Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6.

2026-08-13

US tech outlet WIRED, citing sources, reports the White House will expand an AI safety-testing framework requiring federal safety tests of frontier models before public release. The framework, announced this month but not yet public or detailed, currently covers closed-source models from Anthropic and OpenAI; officials expect it to include open-source models within months once they reach 'frontier' capability comparable to Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6.