WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- The benchmarks that determine whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems are safe enough to release have been finalized. The process for evaluating models capable of launching cyberattacks is now in place. But unless you work for Anthropic, Google, Meta, or OpenAI, you will not be reading them.

The Trump administration has completed a classified AI oversight framework designed to assess frontier models before they reach the public, according to Gizmodo citing sources familiar with the White House process. The framework traces to an executive order Trump signed in June, which directed the government to develop and maintain a classified benchmarking process to assess the advanced cyber capabilities of t...