The change follows lobbying efforts by AI Minister Kanishka Narayan and other British officials who argued that the restriction threatened the UK's efforts to become a global leader in AI regulation. Ministers warned that omitting the most advanced models from their testing pipeline would make the nation's regulatory framework ineffective.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
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US Restores UK Access to Unreleased AI Models for Safety Testing
AI9 days ago
British regulators have regained the ability to audit the latest artificial intelligence systems from US-based developers. The White House lifted a ban on the UK's AI Safety Institute (AISI) reviewing frontier models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, permitting pre-release safety tests on the software before it is made available to the public.
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