U.S. Government Gains Early Look at Frontier AI Models From Google, Microsoft and xAI

Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI have agreed to provide the U.S. government with pre-release access to frontier AI models for national security testing through CAISI. The voluntary deals, expanding on prior pacts with OpenAI and Anthropic, come amid alarms over systems like Anthropic's Mythos and as the Trump administration considers further oversight. States seek inclusion too. This framework gives officials an early technical window while…