Hard Fork

The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express

August 7, 2026·1h 5m·6-min readconversationaltechnology
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The U.S. government has quietly rolled out a secretive AI regulation framework that mandates a 30-day voluntary review for frontier models from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, while explicitly excluding open-source models — a move that’s baffling experts. Meanwhile, AI agents are inc

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