AI Governance
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have been meeting since July about an AI standards body. Nothing is built yet, and small teams should read that carefully.
The Information reported on September 13 that the three biggest frontier labs have held working-group meetings since July 2026 about an industry-led AI safety standards body: shared pre-release testing, independent evaluations, and standardized risk assessments. CNN and the Washington Post followed on September 14. No entity exists, no launch date is set, and the three CEOs still disagree on who should hold the pen. For a five-person shop that buys these models or ships agents on top of them, the useful question is not whether the body gets built. It is who ends up setting your vendors' release bar, and what that does to your calendar and your costs.
