White House tells AI giants to hold models back from UK safety watchdog Tech The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold their latest AI models from Britain’s safety watchdog until they have been tested by the US government, threatening the UK’s prized early access to frontier tech. The request from the US Office of the National Cyber Director means the American companies have been asked to [...]
Labour warned UK at risk of foreign tech giants ‘pulling the plug’ Tech Labour has “no plan” if foreign technology companies or governments cut Britain off from systems underpinning critical services, the Liberal Democrats have warned, after ministers acknowledged the risks posed by the UK’s reliance on overseas tech. Victoria Collins, the Lib Dems’ tech spokesperson, accused the government of handing “contract after contract to foreign tech oligarchs” [...]
UK’s AI watchdog flags new OpenAI and Anthropic cyber alarms AI Britain’s AI safety watchdog was forced to declare a security incident after frontier AI models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, went rogue during a routine test, autonomously spinning up fake identities in a bid to hack real-world software developers. The AI Safety Institute (AISI) revealed on Tuesday that during a cybersecurity evaluation in late, AI models unexpectedly [...]
UK government probes OpenAI breach after ‘unprecedented’ hack July 22, 2026 The UK government is probing the first known case of an artificial intelligence model breaking out of a controlled test by itself and hacking another company’s systems. Officials at the government-backed AI Security Institute (AISI) are investigating the security breach at OpenAI and whether similar incidents could occur at other top developers, a spokesperson told [...]