Nvidia will donate computing access worth $250 million over five years to UK researchers working on agentic AI safety and security. Most of the compute goes to the wider UK safety community, with named portions for Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London.
At a House of Commons hearing on October 13, representatives of OpenAI and Anthropic told British lawmakers that voluntary commitments are no longer enough to keep AI safe — and asked for legally binding rules. Google DeepMind and Meta declined to take the same position.
The Trump administration has reversed a September order that blocked US AI labs from sharing unreleased frontier models with Britain's AI Security Institute. The 17-day freeze kept Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5.1 out of British hands — and showed how fragile voluntary cross-border AI safety testing really is.