The Department of Commerce’s safety-centered AI organization will instead become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation.

The company will work with the safety body to jointly develop testing criteria with the aim of opening up evaluation to companies of all sizes.

Five lawmakers from the Senate Commerce Committee introduced legislation to establish national security standards for frontier developers.

The memo and a corresponding framework for governance outline next steps for the federal government on advancing AI in national security.

In a new letter, the AI startup’s founder and CEO urged congressional leadership to include three AI priorities in any end-of-year legislative packages.

The agency’s AI Safety Institute seeks information on the development of those models.

Several of the bills have counterpart or similar measures moving forward in the Senate.

The AI Safety Institute will have access to new models before and following their releases under the new testing and evaluation pacts.

An amendment that would jeopardize key elements of Biden’s AI executive order advanced out of a Senate panel. Democrats contend it can be fixed later.

All 270-day mark actions from the AI executive order were also completed, per the White House, though some details were not immediately public.