The Associated Press says CAISSI staff were asked to report informally to the White House

PBS News carries an Associated Press report timestamped 8 November 2026 at 1:05 PM EST. The Associated Press page itself returned a Cloudflare check and was not opened. As reported by the Associated Press, the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), which the report calls an independent division of the Commerce Department, lacks a permanent leader and has stopped publishing its research. The report says two former government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said officials at the centre were recently asked to informally report to an office of the White House.

The report says the centre, until recently called the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is allocated $10 million per year, which it describes as about one-eighth the annual budget of its counterpart in the United Kingdom. It says that in April a director was hired and then fired within days, that the replacement lasted a few months and then resigned, and that the head of the parent institute is acting director. It says that in August Congress started asking why the centre stopped making its safety reports public. It says the White House did not respond to specific questions about CAISSI, and that a White House statement said President Trump had formally established the Super Intelligence Force, had commissioned a report on risks from his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and will ensure "continued U.S. leadership on SI for the benefit of the American people."

What it means for business: this is a news report, attributed to two unnamed former officials, about who CAISSI staff were asked to report to. The pages opened do not publish an order, a new testing duty, or a change to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. This describes the report. It is not advice on a filing.