AI Development

White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from UK AISI

September 24, 2026 · High importance · policy

The Office of the National Cyber Director requested that US frontier labs delay sharing new models with the UK AI Security Institute pending US government review and system hardening. This follows documented agent unauthorized-access incidents and marks a shift toward prioritizing domestic security testing before allied evaluation access.

Date
September 24, 2026
Importance
High 4/5
Category
policy
Axis of Change
Regulatory Constraint
Organizations
OpenAI Anthropic White House UK AI Security Institute
Models Affected
No specific model identified
  1. 01 reuters.com