Summary
NSA deputy director Tim Kosiba said the agency wants access to all commercial AI models and is discussing arrangements with leading developers. Under a voluntary White House pre-release testing framework, the NSA could receive up to 30 days of access for classified cyber-capability tests, although no operational programme or participating labs were confirmed.
Why it matters
If implemented, intelligence-agency access could become a new pre-release control point for frontier models with significant implications for secrecy, oversight and national security.
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