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Topic: standards

Delegates seated at tables with national nameplates during a multilateral session at the World Trade Organization Public Forum in Geneva

NEWS AI Policy

OpenAI Calls for Global Frontier-AI Standards, While Ruling Out Licenses and Mandatory Pre-Release Review

OpenAI's Global Affairs team published "Building standards for the next phase of AI" on September 21, 2026, urging international technical standards for frontier AI and recursive self-improvement through CAISI and the AI safety institutes network, while stating the standards would not be licenses, mandatory prerelease review, or approval requirements.

NIST diagram connecting physics, data insights, and human observation in industrial AI

ANALYSIS AI Infrastructure

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard Is Promising Infrastructure, Not Yet a Standard

A shared interface for AI-controlled scientific and industrial equipment could remove a real barrier to faster experimentation. Anthropic's preview shows credible early results, but its safety, interoperability, and governance claims remain largely unavailable for independent inspection.