White House reverses course and restores UK AI Safety Institute's access to frontier models
Source: The Decoder (opens in a new tab) · Manuel Uth
Intel Summary
The White House has reversed course and restored the UK AI Safety Institute's early access to frontier artificial intelligence models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. The move follows a directive where US authorities instructed the companies to halt model sharing with the UK agency, which was overturned after diplomatic intervention by UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan.
Why It Matters
The decision preserves international pre-deployment testing and risk evaluation pipelines between top US frontier AI labs and the UK government. It resolves immediate uncertainty around bilateral AI safety coordination and ensures continued governmental oversight of advanced model capabilities before commercial rollout.
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