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The Standards Body Idea Gets Its Most Credible Backer Yet | 07.21.26
Google DeepMind's CEO is publicly pitching an independent, FINRA-style standards body to review frontier models before release — a notable admission from inside a frontier lab that voluntary self-certification isn't enough. Two new academic papers arrive almost in parallel: one proposes ontology-grounded certification for enterprise AI agents before deployment, the other models delegated authority as a Bayesian quantity that should expand and contract with evidence rather than sit fixed from day one. A new map of 140-plus institutions working on AI governance makes plain just how fragmented…
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