New Delhi, July 6 -- WASHINGTON - The White House is nearing a voluntary agreement with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that would govern how the next generation of AI models gets tested before public release. The standards were drafted in close consultation with the very labs they are meant to hold accountable.

The talks, first reported by the Financial Times on July 3, represent the furthest the federal government has come toward formalizing its oversight of the AI industry's most powerful systems. An announcement could come as soon as the first week of August, when a 60-day deadline set by President Trump's June 2 executive order on AI and cybersecurity expires. The order directed Treasury, Defense, and Homeland Security to develop a be...