Redefined conformity model beats averaging in five real-world tests of opinion dynamics

Imagine you poll your friends on how many minutes per pound to roast a turkey. Five respond with 15 minutes; one answers 33 minutes. The most popular model of conformity, the French-Harary-DeGroot ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Pentagon Tests Rival AI Models in Race to Replace Anthropic

The Pentagon is testing artificial intelligence models to see which are most favored by 25 of the department’s “power users,” as the US military races to find alternatives to Anthropic PBC ’s Claude, ...
Nextgov

Anticipated executive order could give NSA a role in voluntary AI model testing

The order, which is expected this week, comes as the Trump administration grapples with the national security implications of advanced cyber-focused AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos. NSA White House ...
USA Today

A Tesla model became the first to pass NHTSA's new self-driving tests

Tesla's Model Y became the first automobile to pass the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's ‘Advanced Driver Assistance System’ tests, the agency said. NHTSA, which is part of the ...
Autoblog

Tesla Model Y Becomes the First Car to Pass NHTSA’s New ADAS Test

All this comes as federal investigators continue to look into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology following several fatal incidents. Tesla has spent years pushing advanced driver-assistance tech to ...
Electrek

Tesla Model Y first to pass NHTSA’s new ADAS tests — but they test the basics

NHTSA announced today that the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass its new advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) benchmark tests under the updated New Car Assessment Program. The agency ...
Ars Technica

Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

This week, the Trump administration back pedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models before and after their ...
Computerworld

US government agency to safety test frontier AI models before release

CAISI’s agreements with Google, Microsoft, and xAI preceded a report that the White House may be planning to create its own AI vetting system. The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), a ...
USA Today

US government gets early access to AI models for security testing

Microsoft, Google and Elon Musk’s xAI agreed to give the U.S. government early access to new artificial intelligence models for national security testing, as U.S. officials grow alarmed by the hacking ...
The Hill

Microsoft, Google, xAI giving government early access to AI models for review

Three major artificial intelligence firms have agreed to share their models with the federal government to be tested ahead of deployment, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...
Reuters

Microsoft, Google and xAI to give US government early access to AI models for security checks

May 5 (Reuters) - Microsoft, Google and Elon Musk’s xAI agreed to give the U.S. government early access to new artificial intelligence models for national security testing, as U.S. officials grow ...
CNN

Microsoft, Google and xAI will let the government test their AI models before launch

Google, Microsoft and xAI will share unreleased versions of their AI models with the government to curb cybersecurity threats, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced on Tuesday.