[Trump Plans to Transfer Senior Officials from AI Testing Agency to White House, 40-Person Team to Evaluate Top Models] Beating AI Newsflash: The Trump administration plans to transfer three senior officials from the U.S. AI model testing agency CAISSI to the White House, where they will report directly to White House Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross. Previously, the government considered relocating the entire agency to the White House but ultimately decided to adjust only part of the leadership. The transfer has not yet been finalized, and the identities of the three officials remain undisclosed. CAISSI, which operates under the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the U.S. Department of Commerce, has only about 40 employees and an annual budget of approximately $15 million, yet it plays a critical role in model safety evaluations. According to sources, the agency is collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) to test OpenAI's Astra and Anthropic's Mythos before their public release. It has also previously conducted public evaluations of DeepSeek V4 Pro and Zhipu's GLM-5.3. Google has confirmed that Gemini 4 Argon has participated in the U.S. government's voluntary pre-release testing process. This agency has experienced significant turbulence in recent years. Since the establishment of the Biden administration, it has gone through three different names in less than two years. In July of this year, its director Chris Fall resigned after just three months in office, and a successor has yet to be named. The White House hopes that this adjustment will enable model testing experts to play a more direct role in policy decision-making. [Original Link]