{"id":437981,"date":"2026-09-14T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/anthropic-openai-and-google-held-talks-on-ai-safety-body-report-says-437981\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:21:11","slug":"anthropic-openai-and-google-held-talks-on-ai-safety-body-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/anthropic-openai-and-google-held-talks-on-ai-safety-body-report-says-437981\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic, OpenAI and Google held talks on AI safety body, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The report adds substance behind the wave of public safety commentary from AI industry leaders that surfaced over the weekend, suggesting the coordination is more advanced than a single essay or public statement implied. For markets, a credible move toward shared testing and auditing standards could be read two ways. On one hand, standardised pre-release safety reviews could reduce regulatory tail risk for the largest labs by getting ahead of government intervention, a dynamic that has previously supported valuations across the sector. On the other, several commentators have flagged that compliance costs tied to a lab-designed standards body could entrench the largest incumbents, given the OECD has already identified high fixed costs and concentrated infrastructure as barriers to entry in AI, a dynamic worth watching for how it affects competitive positioning among smaller players and infrastructure providers alike.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Earlier:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/stock-market-update\/nasdaq-futures-set-to-open-lower-as-altman-rules-out-2026-openai-ipo\/\" rel=\"follow\">Nasdaq futures set to open lower as Altman rules out 2026 OpenAI IPO<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nThe industry&#8217;s loudest weekend safety statements turn out to have been building on months of quiet, coordinated talks between the three biggest labs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Summary:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>The Information (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/inside-ai-industrys-behind-scenes-push-police\" rel=\"follow\">gated<\/a>) reported that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have held working group meetings since July discussing the creation of an industry led AI safety standards body.<\/li>\n<li>The discussions reportedly predate Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei&#8217;s public call on Saturday for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c14dpgm0rg4o\" rel=\"follow\">AI companies to slow the pace<\/a> of capability development and coordinate on safety.<\/li>\n<li>Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis had separately proposed a FINRA style, US based Frontier AI Standards Body on July 14.<\/li>\n<li>OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly told employees at an internal meeting that he supports creating a testing and auditing body, but believes major labs will need to build one themselves absent US government backing.<\/li>\n<li>The three companies hold differing views on the appropriate level of government involvement, with Anthropic leaning more toward government partnership and OpenAI emphasising voluntary industry standards while also supporting specific state level legislation.<\/li>\n<li>Industry-led safety coordination has precedent, including the 2023 Frontier Model Forum and its associated AI Safety Fund, and the Linux Foundation&#8217;s Agentic AI Foundation launched in December 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\nAnthropic, OpenAI and Google have been holding working group talks since July on creating a shared, industry led standards body for AI safety, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. The talks reportedly predate a public call made on Saturday by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei urging AI companies to slow the pace of capability development and coordinate more closely on safety.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The reporting suggests the public statements that emerged over the weekend, including Amodei&#8217;s essay and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman&#8217;s public agreement with it, were building on top of an already active private coordination effort rather than initiating one. Google DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis had laid some of the groundwork earlier, proposing on July 14 a US based Frontier AI Standards Body modelled on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the self regulatory body that oversees US broker dealers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At an internal employee meeting, Altman reportedly said he supports establishing a testing and auditing body for the AI industry, while adding that without backing from the US government, the major AI labs would need to construct such a body on their own. The three companies appear to hold somewhat different views on the right balance between industry self regulation and government involvement. Anthropic has leaned more explicitly toward partnering with government bodies, with the company&#8217;s red team lead having publicly advocated in July for safety standards developed jointly with regulators. OpenAI, for its part, has emphasised advancing voluntary standards regardless of federal action, while separately supporting specific state level legislation on AI oversight.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The core proposal under discussion centres on shared protocols for testing frontier models before public release, including independent evaluations, pre-release safety reviews, and standardised risk assessments, according to reporting on the talks. Each company already maintains its own internal framework for this kind of assessment, with Anthropic&#8217;s Responsible Scaling Policy and OpenAI&#8217;s Preparedness Framework both laying out internal processes for evaluating catastrophic risk before deployment, while Google DeepMind has been comparatively less public about the specifics of its own internal safety protocols.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is not the first attempt at cross-company coordination on AI safety. The Frontier Model Forum, an industry backed nonprofit launched in 2023 by six major AI companies, has run an associated AI Safety Fund with more than $10 million committed to independent safety research. More recently, the Linux Foundation&#8217;s Agentic AI Foundation, established in December 2025, brought together open standards projects including Anthropic&#8217;s Model Context Protocol, Block&#8217;s Goose, and OpenAI&#8217;s AGENTS.md. Whether the current talks produce a more formal standards body, and how much authority or government backing it ultimately carries, remains to be seen, with reporting indicating the working group discussions are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report adds substance behind the wave of public safety commentary from AI industry leaders that surfaced over the weekend, suggesting the coordination is more advanced than a single essay or public&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}