Microsoft, Google, xAI agree to share AI models with White House for security reviews

Nypost · 🇨🇳 public China · May 05, 2026 · 478 words · By Taylor Herzlich

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Microsoft, Google, xAI agree to share AI models with White House for security reviews Microsoft, Google’s DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to share early versions of their powerful AI models with the US government for pre-clearances and security…

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Why it matters

The department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation said it will “conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research” to better understand the capabilities and risks that come with new tools.

Common ground

Previous agreements with Anthropic and OpenAI have also “been renegotiated” to reflect Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and President Trump’s new directives on security reviews, the center said.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “OpenAI is planning a limited release of its latest model, called GPT-5.5-Cyber”

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Claim 2: “It’s said access [to Mythos] would be limited to a group of companies including Amazon, Google and JPMorgan.”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding limited access to a 'Mythos' model for Amazon, Google, and JPMorgan.

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Claim 3: “The department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation said it will “conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research””

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Multiple web search results explicitly state that CAISI will conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to assess frontier AI capabilities.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — AI safety is an interdisciplinary field focused on preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences arising from artificial intelligence systems. It encompasses AI alignment (which aims to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An artificial intelligence safety institute is a type of state-backed organization aiming to evaluate and ensure the safety of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, also called frontier AI mod…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_safety…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paul Christiano is an American researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), with a specific focus on AI alignment, which is the subfield of AI safety research that aims to steer AI systems…
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Claim 4: “A Pew Research Center poll last year found that 50% of Republicans and 51% of Democrats said they were more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life.”

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Claim 5: “The AI Safety Institute was established in 2023 under the Biden administration.”

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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and news reports, confirm the AI Safety Institute was established in 2023 under the Biden administration.

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web search NEUTRAL — In 2023, the Biden administration began plans to create a U.S. AI Safety Institute within NIST to coordinate AI safety matters. According to The Washington Post, NIST is considered "notoriously underf…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standard…

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web search NEUTRAL — The U.S. AI Safety Institute has partnered with Anthropic and OpenAI to advance research on AI safety, testing, and evaluation.The collaboration aims to ensure the responsible development of AI, in al…
https://www.allaboutai.com/ai-news/u-s-ai-safety-institute-p…

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web search NEUTRAL — The US AI Safety Institute was created in 2023 as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Executive Order on AI, and is tasked with developing the testing, evaluations and guidelines for responsible…
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-anthropic-agree-us-…

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Claim 6: “It was renamed as CAISI under the Trump administration”

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Web search results from The Verge and SSTI confirm that the Trump administration renamed the AI Safety Institute to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).

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web search NEUTRAL — An AI Safety Institute is a state-backed institute aiming to evaluate and ensure the safety of advanced artificial intelligence models, also called frontier AI models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Safety_Institute

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web search NEUTRAL — The Trump Administration’s FY 2027 budget request, submitted to Congress on April 3, bears considerable resemblance to its FY 2026 request with proposals to cut funding for many of the agencies and li…
https://ssti.org/blog/us-ai-safety-institute-has-been-rename…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Trump administration has renamed the AI Safety Institute to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), which will focus on national security.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/679852/t…

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Claim 7: “The model [Mythos] has already “found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser,” the AI company previously trumpeted.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a model named 'Mythos' or its discovery of vulnerabilities.

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Claim 8: “Tom Lue, the research lab’s vice president of global AI affairs, confirmed the partnership in a social media post Tuesday.”

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Multiple search results confirm that Tom Lue, VP of global AI affairs at Google DeepMind, confirmed the partnership via social media and internal communications.

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web search NEUTRAL — Google DeepMind declined to comment. Tom Lue, the research lab's vice president of global AI affairs, confirmed the partnership in a social media post Tuesday.
https://www.aol.com/news/microsoft-google-xai-agree-share-15…

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web search NEUTRAL — Tech News News: Google DeepMind VP of global affairs Tom Lue told employees in a January town hall that the company was going to be \\"leaning more\\" into national secur.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/as-…

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web search NEUTRAL — At a Google DeepMind town hall, VP Tom Lue and CEO Demis Hassabis told employees the company is actively expanding national security AI contracts with the Pentagon, having removed its previous pledge …
https://creati.ai/ai-news/2026-03-20/google-deepmind-leaning…

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Claim 9: “Fall was recently announced as the center’s director after ex-Anthropic researcher Collin Burns was pushed out following just four days on the job”

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The search results for 'Collin Burns' returned irrelevant adult content and no professional or news-related information regarding his employment at CAISI or his replacement by Chris Fall.

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Claim 10: “Previous agreements with Anthropic and OpenAI have also “been renegotiated” to reflect Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and President Trump’s new directives on security reviews”

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Web search results confirm that previous agreements with Anthropic and OpenAI were renegotiated to align with the directives of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and President Trump.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running inference for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models.…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Generative artificial intelligence, commonly known as generative AI or GenAI, is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to generate text, images, videos, audio, software cod…
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Claim 11: “Microsoft, Google’s DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to share early versions of their powerful AI models with the US government for pre-clearances and security reviews”

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Multiple independent news sources, including the Wall Street Journal and other web search results, confirm that Microsoft, Google DeepMind, and xAI agreed to share early AI models with the US government for security reviews.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI boom is a period of rapid growth in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The most recent boom started gradually in the late 2010s before seeing increased acceleration and media coverage in…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google DeepMind, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British-American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gemini (also known as Google Gemini and formerly known as Bard) is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google. It is powered by the family of large language…
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Claim 12: “Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, or CAISI”

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Multiple sources, including MeriTalk and The Wrap, confirm that Chris Fall was tapped to lead the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
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