Washington is keeping its AI rulebook private. Smaller AI labs aren’t happy.

Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue:

• Washington is keeping its AI rulebook private. Here’s what our sources are saying.
• Europe’s AI sovereignty is under threat. Could Mistral be the answer?
• OpenAI details how autonomous agents coordinated during the Hugging Face incident.
• Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team.
• And more AI agent hacks emerge.

This week, the major players in the AI industry met with the U.S. government in a bid to end the confusion around the regulation of frontier AI models. The meeting was convened at the White House on Tuesday, and featured OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, and other leading AI companies. The upshot was a new voluntary framework that allows the government to review frontier models.

The companies who joined the White House confab agreed to the proposed arrangement—but,...