The Information reports that Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind have quietly held working-group meetings since July aimed at setting up an industry-led standards body for AI. Per the report, Dario Amodei has been driving the effort with Sam Altman backing it as an alternative to waiting for government action. The proposal centres on shared protocols for technical testing and pre-release auditing of frontier models. The three labs reportedly still disagree on how much government involvement to invite, with Anthropic favouring partnership and OpenAI leaning towards voluntary industry rules. Read alongside Speaker Johnson's refusal to legislate, it suggests the labs expect to write the rulebook themselves. The open question is who audits the auditors.