The Government’s Page About Its AI Vetting Deals with Google, xAI, and Microsoft Is Missing from Its Website

About a week ago, the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) announced an agreement with AI companies Microsoft, XAI, and Google that allowed the government to inspect unpublished AI models before they are released to the general public. Anthropic and OpenAI signed something similar in 2024.

Here is a longer excerpt from the government’s announcement of May 5, 2026:

“Today, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI. Through these expanded industry collaborations, CAISI will conduct pre-deployment assessments and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security. These agreements build on previously announced partnerships, which have been renegotiated to reflect CAISI’s directives from the Secretary of Commerce and America’s AI work. Plan.”

But that excerpt had to be removed from the Wayback Machine because that announcement is currently missing from the CAISI website. Reuters appears to have been the first to notice this, writing on Monday afternoon that using the original URL brought up an error page saying, “Sorry, we can’t find that page,” and then later, redirected to the main CAISI page on the Commerce Department’s website. At the time of writing this article on Monday night, the URL is still redirected to the CAISI page.

“These agreements support information-sharing,” the archived announcement said, while also “ensuring a clear understanding across government of AI capabilities and the state of international AI competition.”

Gizmodo requested comment from the White House and the Commerce Department on Monday evening, but did not immediately receive a response. We will update this article when we get a reply.