The U.S. quietly deleted a page announcing AI security testing deals with Google, Microsoft, and xAI

The U.S. quietly deleted a page announcing AI security testing deals with Google, Microsoft, and xAI

The page, posted May 5, outlined a pre-deployment review program for frontier AI models; the link now redirects to a government testing body's homepage

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The Commerce Department has removed from its website the details of an agreement under which Google $GOOGL, Microsoft $MSFT, and Elon Musk's xAI had agreed to submit new AI models to government scientists for security testing before public release, according to Reuters.

Published on May 5, the now-removed page described an arrangement in which Google, Microsoft, and xAI would give government scientists early access to frontier models so they could be assessed for vulnerabilities ranging from cyberattack potential to military misuse before those systems reached the public. Anyone who visited the link on Monday found it had gone dark, displaying an error that read "Sorry, we cannot........

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