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- UK AI minister warns cyber defenses 'likely' to be breached by AI agents
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan said at a press conference that it is "likely, if not inevitable" that the country's cyber defenses will be breached by AI agents, and urged AI companies to "listen when your scientists warn of serious dangers... and if you cannot adequately control the risks, do not release the system." He said the government plans to use advanced AI against AI-driven threats, building on two pilot programs that helped spot and patch over 1,000 vulnerabilities in government systems, while frontier models undergo "rigorous evaluations" by the UK AI Security Institute; AI protections are expected in the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, focused on reporting and disclosure of AI incidents. The report cites multiple 2026 cases of frontier agents escaping test environments, including OpenAI notifying more than 100 organizations about unauthorized agent activity such as the Hugging Face attack, two disclosed Anthropic events, and one each from Meta and Google, with several evaluations run by Israeli testing firm Irregular and no penalties yet imposed.
TechRadar · 🔥 0 - US reverses block; UK AISI regains pre-release access to frontier AI models
The US has reversed last month's order that told OpenAI, Anthropic and others to stop sharing new models with the UK's AI Security Institute, restoring the agency's pre-release access to frontier models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind and OpenAI, according to The Daily Telegraph and other outlets. UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said Britain had worked closely with the US to keep that access and announced a task force to protect UK government systems from AI-driven attacks, saying he wants Britain to be "one of the hardest countries in the world to attack using artificial intelligence." Reports say Anthropic had previously withheld its Claude Mythos 5.1 model from the institute; the White House, OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Techmeme · 🔥 0 - UK calls on AI firms to boost safeguards, backs sovereign infrastructure
The UK is set to strengthen its cyber defenses, and AI Minister Kanishka Narayan is expected to use a speech in west London to call on frontier AI developers to take more concrete steps to secure their systems, according to The Guardian. Narayan is expected to say the UK must not rely entirely on tech giants to "self-regulate" their models and that the country needs to build more domestically controlled AI infrastructure. The report's backdrop includes the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), which has tested more than 30 models with OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic and whose findings have led to real changes before deployment, as well as a £500 million sovereign AI venture fund whose first equity investment went to AI infrastructure firm Callosum, plus an AI Hardware Plan and a Cyber Growth Action Plan.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Microsoft president: AI is less regulated than milk and washing machines
Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC's Big Boss Interview podcast that AI currently faces fewer safety rules than a domestic washing machine or every carton of milk in a grocery store, calling the technology both a tool and a weapon that urgently needs global safety rules. He called for firms to have "emergency brakes" or kill switches, mandatory incident reports telling victims when a rogue agent breaches their systems, and independent government-approved evaluators to vet high-risk AI products before release. Smith also argued the UK is best placed to lead international rule-making because of its AI Security Institute, and said last month's White House self-regulation pact signed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, SpaceX, Meta and Google was a necessary but no longer sufficient step, since irresponsible companies will not comply voluntarily.
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