{"id":28391,"date":"2026-05-05T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28391\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:53:12","slug":"us-government-now-has-pre-release-access-to-ai-models-from-five-major-labs-for-national-security-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/28391\/","title":{"rendered":"US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/author\/matthias-bastian\/\" class=\"w-6 h-6 relative rounded-full overflow-hidden shrink-0 bg-gray-400 block   exclude-from-pdf\" title=\"View all posts by Matthias Bastian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Matthias Bastian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/avatar_matthias_bastian.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-24 photo w-6 h-6 left-0 top-0 absolute\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), part of the US Department of Commerce, has signed new agreements with Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI. The goal is to test advanced AI models for <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/unauthorized-users-breach-anthropics-restricted-mythos-ai-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">national security risks<\/a> before they become publicly available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national security implications,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nist.gov\/news-events\/news\/2026\/05\/caisi-signs-agreements-regarding-frontier-ai-national-security-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said CAISI Director Chris Fall<\/a>. The agency has already <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/china-is-falling-behind-in-the-ai-race-according-to-a-us-government-benchmark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">run more than 40 evaluations<\/a>, some on unreleased models. AI labs also provide versions with reduced safety guardrails for testing.<\/p>\n<p>The new deals <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/anthropic-and-openai-grant-us-institute-early-access-to-new-ai-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">build on earlier agreements with Anthropic and OpenAI<\/a> and allow testing in classified environments. Those original agreements already covered joint safety assessments and research into risk mitigation. The expansion comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/gpt-5-5-matches-claude-mythos-in-cyber-attack-tests-uk-ai-security-institute-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">AI models rapidly improve at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/thousands-of-procurement-documents-show-how-chinas-army-wants-to-weaponize-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">tech race with China intensifies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), part of the US Department of Commerce, has signed new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5044,132,7543,2450],"class_list":{"0":"post-28391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-google","8":"tag-deepmind","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-deepmind","11":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}