[OpenAI, Google, and Six Other Companies Sign Voluntary AI Safety Agreement with the White House, Commit to External Audits] According to CoinDesk, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, NVIDIA, and xAI signed the White House AI safety agreement on September 29, pledging to monitor risks posed by frontier models in areas such as cybersecurity, biosafety, and chemical threats. The agreement includes internal team inspections to identify and address issues, the introduction of independent external organizations to evaluate safety control measures, and oversight by independent committees within the board of directors. This agreement is a voluntary commitment, with no specified implementation timeline or penalties for non-compliance, and the auditing organizations are selected by the companies themselves.