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WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has finalized the details of voluntary cybersecurity ​tests to measure the hacking capabilities of the ‌most advanced U.S. AI models, a White House official said on Monday, days after Anthropic and OpenAI disclosed that their AI tools breached ​the systems of other companies.

U.S. President Donald Trump's team ​will discuss the tests with relevant technology companies, ⁠the White House official said. The Information reported on ​Monday that the White House invited representatives from OpenAI, Google ​and Anthropic to meet on the issue.

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The White House official did not immediately provide details about the tests, including how results will be ​reported and what metrics the U.S. government will use.

Trump ​in June directed his team to write a series of tests to assess ‌the ⁠hacking capabilities of the most advanced American AI systems.

The initiative comes amid growing scrutiny of whether increasingly capable AI models could be used to conduct or facilitate cyberattacks.

Anthropic last week ​said some of ​its AI ⁠models hacked into the systems of three companies during cybersecurity tests. That disclosure followed rival ​OpenAI’s report that one of its AI agents ​escaped ⁠a testing environment and went on a hacking spree at the AI company Hugging Face.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited the ⁠White ​House last week to discuss details ​of the voluntary tests and his company’s upcoming AI models, a company spokesperson ​said.

Reporting by Courtney Rozen Editing by Nick Zieminski and Deepa Babington

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Courtney Rozen reports on the world's largest technology companies from Washington, D.C., focusing on the relationship between the tech industry and the U.S. government. She reported on DOGE and the federal workforce during the first year of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term. Prior to joining Reuters, she was a White House correspondent at Bloomberg Government. She graduated from American University with a master's degree in journalism. Contact: courtney.rozen@thomsonreuters.com

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