As AI remains at the center of heated debate in Washington, the White House is hosting reps from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI for a confab on new regulations on Tuesday, sources told The Post.
They’ll discuss a forthcoming framework on how AI makers can voluntarily submit their models to the government before releasing them to the public or business partners, the two sources Monday of the meeting, which was first reported by news site The Information.
The meeting – to be hosted by the executive-branch Office of the National Cyber Director, an agency within the executive branch – comes in the wake of a June executive order that set an Aug. 1 deadline for completion of the framework. The policy has been finalized and the meeting is intended to discuss next steps in the rollout, according to The Information.
The meeting is expected to include staffers for the AI giants instead of their high-profile executives, the outlet reported, adding that it wasn’t clear whether the White House will take public feedback before releasing the final policy.
A White House official did not specify to The Information whether the framework is actually in effect already.
Anthropic’s development of Mythos – an AI model that the company did not release to the public due to potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities – initially triggered the executive order from the Trump administration.
The White House sought a voluntary arrangement for AI companies to work with the government to spot risks in their newest models, part of a broader effort to confine federal regulation of the tech to a light touch. The executive order directed several agencies to develop the framework within 60 days, including defining which models would be under its scope.
In the days since the order, the Trump administration has taken a more hands-on approach with the leading AI companies, drawing some criticism from both industry executives and policy experts.
That criticism intensified after the White House placed export controls on Fable, the public version of Anthropic’s Mythos model, and directed OpenAI to stagger the rollout of its latest model, GPT-5.6.
The framework is intended to create clearer plans for how and to what extent AI companies coordinate with the government before releasing new models. The administration has been hearing feedback from companies on the policy since June and provided an early draft to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in July, according to The Information.
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman reportedly flew to Washington last week to meet with senior White House officials, including National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, to discuss the framework. Also on the table were the company’s new model, Astra, and other topics.
Executives from other companies have also met with senior Trump officials to work through unresolved issues in the framework, including whether it will address open-source models specifically, The Information added.
At Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei was replaced by his co-founder Tom Brown at high-stakes White House meetings – where the AI giant’s outspoken boss was “being a weirdo,” according to Wired.
