Google, Microsoft, and xAI Agreed to Let the Government Test Their AI Before Release. Here's What That Actually Means.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) announced on May 5 that Google, Microsoft, and xAI will submit unreleased frontier models for pre-release safety testing. Anthropic and OpenAI already had similar agreements. Here's what CAISI does, what it can't do, and why this matters more than it sounds.