White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold models from UK testing agency until US testing

TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-26

Per POLITICO, the White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their AI models with the UK government's testing agency until the models have gone through US testing. The move highlights growing friction over who gets access to frontier models for safety evaluation, even among close allies.

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