OpenAI, Google and Meta Pledge Outside AI Audits Under Voluntary White House Deal | CoinDesk Daily

— OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, NVIDIA, and Elon Musk's XAI signed a voluntary White House AI safety pact requiring outside auditors to review controls on their most capable models.

— President Trump called the AI safety agreement "morally binding," though it contains no penalties and sets no deadline for compliance.

— The crypto industry spent over $8 million lobbying Congress in the first half of the year to pass a digital assets market structure bill, which ultimately failed.

— Coinbase was the largest crypto industry lobbying spender at approximately $2.2 million, ranking in the top 10 of all securities and investment industry lobbies.

— Industry observers attributed the lobbying failure to internal disagreements and lack of unified positioning on key bill provisions.

— The CFTC submitted two new rules to the White House to establish federal jurisdiction over prediction markets and clarify they are not gambling operations.

— Monitor how AI safety auditing frameworks evolve, as regulatory clarity on AI's role in security could affect broader crypto infrastructure and exchange safeguards.

— Track CFTC prediction market rules closely; if both new rules pass, they could reshape the legal landscape for decentralized prediction platforms and remove state-level gambling challenges.