[U.S. States Call for Participation in AI Model Testing to Strengthen Cybersecurity Collaboration] According to Jin10 reports, senior security officials from more than a dozen U.S. states have urged artificial intelligence companies to include these states in cutting-edge model testing, citing that developers currently tend to collaborate more with Washington and large tech companies. In a letter sent on Tuesday to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google, a group of state-level chief information security officers, homeland security advisors, and technology officials stated that states remain excluded from early access programs. The letter reads: 'While we appreciate the launch of new cyber defense initiatives, we are deeply concerned about the current practice of prioritizing partnerships with federal counterparts and large tech companies while largely excluding state and local agencies, which are responsible for delivering and protecting many of the nation’s critical services.'