Google, Microsoft, and xAI Give US Government Pre-Launch Access to AI Models

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Google, Microsoft, and xAI agreed to let the US Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation review their AI models before public release, joining OpenAI and Anthropic who already had such agreements. This means all five frontier AI labs now participate in government pre-launch testing. The agreement is voluntary but signals increasing normalization of government AI oversight even under the deregulation-minded Trump administration.