News Summary

• Battle lines have been drawn over who should audit AI companies' systems.
• Leading AI companies have for years worked with nonprofits concentrated in the Bay Area's AI safety community.
• Trump's tech-world allies say the work of auditing AI should be taken on by America's largest consulting firms.
• At a conference over the weekend, members of AI safety organizations grappled with the impact of what some see as a coordinated campaign to delegitimize their work and paint their community as cultish and unserious.