On August 4, the White House informed companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic of the final version of the voluntary AI safety testing framework, explicitly excluding open-weight models from federal safety reviews. The framework, implemented by CAISI under NIST, requires closed-source frontier models to undergo a 30-day voluntary early evaluation prior to release, applying solely to leading closed-source providers. China's open-source models, such as Kimi K3 and DeepSeek, do not need to be submitted to the U.S. government for testing prior to release. On July 24, approximately 25 companies, including NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Meta, signed a joint open letter opposing "premature restrictions" on open-source models; OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google did not sign. The framework missed its original August 1 deadline. The open-source side won this round, but the victory is at the level of rules, not permanent exemption. Paths related to chips, procurement, trade, and intellectual property remain open. The framework imposes constraints on America’s own proprietary vendors while providing Chinese open-source models with a frictionless fast track.