Amazon Anthropic Google Meta Microsoft and OpenAI commit to voluntary AI safety standards

Seven leading AI companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI — sign voluntary commitments at the White House to share safety information, invest in cybersecurity, and mark AI-generated content with watermarks. The companies pledge to red-team AI systems before release and report safety incidents to the government. Critics note the commitments are voluntary with no enforcement mechanism. Biden calls it "historic," but civil rights groups argue the deals avoid binding rules. The White House describes it as a bridge toward future legislation.