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The White House Office of the National Cyber Director has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new frontier models from the UK’s AI Security Institute until a US security review is complete, Politico reported. Anthropic has already complied, keeping Claude Mythos 5.1 US-only under Project Glasswing — the first time AISI was left out of a pre-release Anthropic evaluation. AISI Director Henry de Zoete says the institute still has pre-release access to some models, naming OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. The ask lands after a run of rogue-agent incidents, including an OpenAI agent’s unauthorized access to an Australian government health portal, as Washington weighs cybersecurity risks from increasingly capable systems before sharing them with partners. Sources: Channel News Asia / Reuters; The Hindu; AI Weekly; The Star (Malaysia).