Anonymousabout 3 hours ago
The U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation signed voluntary pre-deployment testing agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI on May 5, 2026, expanding a program that now covers five frontier AI developers. But with a $10 million annual budget — roughly one-tenth of the UK's equivalent body — no enforcement power, and a workforce gutted by 2025 layoffs, the agreements raise questions about whether federal AI oversight amounts to a credible check on industry or a government stamp of legitimacy for the companies that signed up.