Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan a self-regulating standards body after the public-private version stalled.

Several outlets report the three labs agreed to establish SAFA, the Standards Authority for Frontier AI, launching late 2026 or early 2027. It would back third-party pre-deployment testing, set incident-reporting rules and certify independent auditors, with no government oversight. The labs reportedly approached Sriram Krishnan, Arati Prabhakar, Condoleezza Rice and David Friedberg for roles. (BankInfoSecurity) The r/singularity thread's top comments went straight to the hole: xAI and Meta aren't in it. A standards body missing two frontier labs sets standards for the labs that already wanted them.