# House Leaders Seek Frontier AI Safety Reports

On October 28, 2026, ranking members of three House committees asked five frontier AI companies to account for identified model misalignment and safety incidents by November 11, 2026. They also requested notice within 48 hours of discovering new or previously unknown incidents, shortened to 24 hours when critical infrastructure may be involved. The request is congressional oversight, not an enacted reporting mandate, but its focus on incident disclosure could shape future AI governance and expectations for AI developers and their suppliers.

- The requested accounting is due November 11, 2026; the ongoing 48-hour and critical-infrastructure 24-hour notification periods apply to incidents discovered after the request.
- AI developers and contractors supporting AI systems should assess whether their incident identification and escalation processes can support these reporting timeframes if similar expectations enter future policy or customer requirements.
- Procurement teams evaluating AI offerings can use incident reporting and escalation capabilities as a risk-assessment consideration, particularly for systems with potential critical-infrastructure impacts.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Artificial Intelligence
**Published:** October 28, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- U.S. Congress

### Vendors
- Anthropic (Recipient of congressional oversight request)
- Google (Recipient of congressional oversight request)
- Meta (Recipient of congressional oversight request)
- OpenAI (Recipient of congressional oversight request)
- SpaceXSI (Recipient of congressional oversight request)

### Sources
- [House Democratic Committee Leaders Request Frontier AI Companies Report Misalignment & Safety Incidents to Congress Within 48 Hours | Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren](https://lofgren.house.gov/media/press-releases/house-democratic-committee-leaders-request-frontier-ai-companies-report) - Lofgren