White House tells OpenAI and Anthropic to let U.S. review new models before sharing them with British testers
The White House just blocked two frontier labs from sharing models with Britain's AI Safety Institute until U.S. review clears.
Why it matters
The U.S. is asserting review authority over model releases to international partners, signaling a shift toward state-level AI governance and potential friction between allied AI safety institutions. For enterprises and practitioners, this affects how frontier labs coordinate with international regulators and may slow model availability timelines.
The key facts
9 to knowWhite House directive targets OpenAI and Anthropic specifically
Models blocked from U.K. AI Safety Institute until U.S. agency review
Affects international model-release coordination and safety governance
No timeline, review criteria, or enforcement mechanism disclosed
Story key in existing 72h list: openai-anthropic-uk-asi-model-testing-refusal
White House directive to OpenAI and Anthropic
Affects model access to UK AI Safety Institute
U.S. agencies to review before international sharing
Policy implications for frontier model governance and international AI safety collaboration
The story so far
Earlier coverage of this storyline
- AI safety – what does this week's China-US summit hope to achieve? And what are the chances?diginomica
- Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ as US, China Discuss AI Safety ChannelTechRepublic
- Burnham to call for global effort to control threats posed by AIFinancial Times Technology
- Trump-Xi summit puts AI safety talks on the table but neither side wants to slow downCNBC Technology
- Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security CouncilOpenAI Blog
- This story
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Publisher excerpt: The White House wants OpenAI and Anthropic to hold back new AI models from the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute until U.S. agencies get to review them first.