Who oversees the AI systems institutions depend on
Who decides whether an AI system can be trusted, and on what evidence?
DHS orders DeepSeek products, and third-party products built on DeepSeek, excluded from federal civilian procurement and removed from civilian agency IT, under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act.
Primary- Notice of Exclusion and Removal Order: DeepSeek (FR Doc. 2026-21447) Federal Register (public inspection)
Can governments bar an AI model, and products built on it, from public systems on supply-chain grounds?
What it could establish
AI model provenance as a procurement boundary, reaching downstream products built on a model.
What would settle it
Implementation guidance on third-party products, enforcement, vendor challenges, and whether other governments or models follow.
Anthropic gives six staff from METR, a Berkeley nonprofit, employee-like access to its models and tools. Anthropic cannot veto their reports but can redact protected information. It is also working with SecureBio and Accenture.
Reporting- Who's watching the AI companies? Handpicked Berkeley safety groups The San Francisco Standard
Will embedded independent evaluators become a norm for frontier AI companies?
What it could establish
That outside evaluators get inside access and publication rights as a condition of trust, rather than case-by-case.
What would settle it
Other labs adopting comparable terms, the first published findings showing real access, or a binding requirement.
Anthropic's CEO publishes an essay calling on every frontier AI company to give embedded third-party evaluators ongoing, employee-like access.
Reporting- AI embedded evaluator jobs The New Stack