US Media: White House Plans to Expand AI Regulation, Open-Source Models May Be Included in Testing Framework

TechFlow reports, August 13, according to US tech media WIRED citing informed sources, the Trump administration's new AI guidelines will be revised and expand regulation on AI models. The White House announced this month that it has established an AI framework, under which frontier AI models developed by US labs will undergo safety testing by the federal government before public release. The government has not yet made the framework public, and reportedly has no plan to do so.

Currently, this AI framework only involves so-called "closed-source models" developed by companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI. However, a White House official revealed that it is expected that in the coming months, this framework will also cover open-source models. In short, once open-source models reach the same "frontier" capability level as Anthropic's Mythos-level models and OpenAI's GPT-5.6, they will be included in the framework and undergo pre-release testing. (Jin10)