THE BRIEFING CENTER

NIST has opened its AI Agent Standards Initiative, targeting agent identity, action logging, and containment as the first formal U.S. standards effort built specifically for autonomous systems. Separately, a Cloud Security Alliance survey finds that only 18% of security leaders trust their current IAM systems to manage agent identities, while just 23% of organizations have a formal strategy for it. The Agentic AI Institute reports the consequence: 72% of enterprises now run a

Rep. Jay Obernolte and Rep. Lori Trahan released a 269-page discussion draft of the Great American AI Act, the most comprehensive bipartisan federal AI framework proposed to date, built around a deliberately temporary three-year preemption clause. NIST quietly retired the "AI Safety Institute Consortium" name in favor of a broader NIST Artificial Intelligence Consortium, expanding into six task groups that push further into measurement science and adoption tooling. The OECD a