Department of Commerce's AI-Vetting Announcement Page Missing, Raising Transparency Concerns
An announcement from the Department of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) regarding new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI has disappeared from the agency's website. The announcement, dated May 5, 2026, detailed plans for pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to support information-sharing. Initially, the page returned an error and later redirected to the CAISI main page. The disappearance of the announcement has raised questions about government transparency, as the Department of Commerce and the White House have not yet commented on the issue.