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Meta is the last major AI lab standing outside the White House's voluntary review program and the gap is closing fast

Meta remains the only major U.S. AI lab that has not joined the White House's voluntary pre-deployment review program for advanced AI models, which allows agencies like the NSA and CISA to assess models for cyber risks before public release. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and xAI have all signed on, with over 40 model assessments completed. Meta says it expects to agree eventually.

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Meta is the last major AI lab standing outside the White House's voluntary review program and the gap is closing fast
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Every major U.S. frontier AI lab has agreed to let the government preview their models before release. Every one except Meta.

On June 2, President Trump signed an executive order establishing a voluntary pre-deployment review framework for advanced AI models. The setup is simple enough: the NSA, CISA, and NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation, known as CAISI, get up to 30 days to assess a model's capabilities and vulnerabilities before it goes public, with a particular focus on cyber warfare risks and threats to critical infrastructure. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have all signed on. CAISI has completed more than 40 model assessments to date, including evaluations of unreleased systems. Meta has not joined them.

The company says it expects to agree eventually. That gap between

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