Major AI labs face mounting pressure to formalize third-party vetting commitments ahead of the October 31 deadline, driven primarily by the late-September White House Accord on Super Intelligence. Signed by executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, and Nvidia, the voluntary framework calls for internal controls, an empowered oversight team, independent external auditors to verify safeguards on frontier models, and board-level review. Anthropic and OpenAI moved earlier, with Anthropic embedding evaluators from Faculty/Accenture and OpenAI releasing detailed principles for assessments during training and deployment. Competitive positioning, California’s new auditor registry, and proposed federal rules like the FRONTIER Act add momentum, though the accord lacks enforcement or timelines, leaving room for clarification or further pledges from remaining signatories before month-end.