“Targeted research shows that in August 2026 the White House finalized and publicly confirmed a new voluntary oversight framework for "covered frontier models", including pre-release government testing of advanced AI models and associated model-release restrictions, and that OpenAI announced new, binding internal safety controls, testing requirements, and pauses on Astra-related work under its Preparedness Framework. These are explicit new AI safety/security testing and release rules announced during August by a major regulator and a major AI company.” — Worldward