The US government missed the August 1, 2026 deadline to establish a classified evaluation process for the most powerful AI models, with no public announcement regarding compliance. This requirement originated from an executive order signed by President Trump on June 2, 2026, tasking agencies including the NSA, CISA, Treasury, and NIST with creating a framework to identify « covered frontier models » subject to enhanced government oversight. Negotiations with major AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, were still ongoing in late July 2026, just one week before the deadline. Meta, which develops open-source models like Llama, was excluded from these discussions, raising questions about the future of decentralized AI projects in the crypto ecosystem, which rely heavily on open-weight models.
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