Sophia Cai(@SophiaCai99):Scoop: The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their AI models with the U.K. government’s testing agency until the models have gone through U.S. testing. “Because they’re American companies and this has been our policy with every new frontier model that comes out,” the senior admin official told me. WH wants this sequence: U.S. review -> secure U.S. systems -> share models with U.S. partners Anthropic appears to have complied but OpenAI has not said if it will. w/ @JoeBambridge1

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2026.09.24 16:46

Scoop: The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their AI models with the U.K. government’s testing agency until the models have gone through U.S. testing. “Because they’re American companies and this has been our policy with every new frontier model that comes out,” the senior admin official told me. WH wants this sequence: U.S. review -> secure U.S. systems -> share models with U.S. partners Anthropic appears to have complied but OpenAI has not said if it will. w/ @JoeBambridge1