[UK and US Coordinate AI Model Testing Access, Trump Previously Restricted Model Sharing] UK Minister for Artificial Intelligence, Kanishka Narayan, announced on Monday that the UK has been working closely with the US government to ensure that the UK's Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute continues to have access to test the most advanced AI models before their release. During a speech in London, he stated: 'I want the UK to become one of the hardest countries in the world to attack using artificial intelligence.' Last month, media reports revealed that the Trump administration had requested OpenAI and Anthropic to delay providing AI models to the UK until US authorities first deemed these models safe. Trump had been tightening global access to Silicon Valley AI models. Earlier this year, the US government prohibited Anthropic from releasing its latest models to foreign nationals.