Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google held talks on an industry AI standards body, The Information reports

The Information reported that Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working-group meetings since July on creating an industry-led AI standards body — including as recently as the past week — while White House efforts stalled.

The public “slow down” week sits on top of months of private talks among Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. The Information’s sourcing makes the standards-body idea look like a project already in motion — still one newsroom’s unnamed tip, not a launched office.

The Information’s Leo Schwartz reported, citing sources, that Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have been discussing creation of an industry-led AI standards body. That Schwartz scoop — Techmeme’s same-day lead — is the filing event. This is unnamed-source reporting. None of the three labs has publicly confirmed the talks in a company statement this desk can cite.

Per Techmeme’s same-day summary of The Information: the three have held working-group meetings since July 2026 to discuss creating that industry-led standards body.

Leo Schwartz’s public summary of his own scoop, as quoted on that Techmeme cluster: the meetings continued as recently as this past week, even as White House efforts stalled. This scoop does not claim White House participation, a signed pact, an antitrust waiver, or METR embedding — METR being the independent model-evaluation nonprofit often named in these talks.

The Information’s reporting, as Gate News and Techmeme relay it, says the discussions began before Amodei’s Saturday essay calling for coordination on testing and auditing / pacing. One-sentence context only: Amodei’s essay and the peer-CEO replies (including Hassabis’s public support for an industry-wide standards-body direction) are separate filings. This is the private-talks scoop underneath the public week.

Secondary paraphrase via Gate News of The Information: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed advancing an AI testing and auditing standards body without relying on U.S. Government backing. Schwartz’s own public summary likewise says Altman discussed moving the idea forward without the government in a company context. Attribute that as The Information’s sourcing, via those secondary summaries.