UK AI Minister Narayan: AISI Will Keep Pre-Release Access to AI Models

The signal here is less about new powers than about continuity: the UK is signalling that pre-release access for its safety body is settled policy, not a temporary arrangement. That matters for frontier developers, who face a patchwork of national testing regimes rather than one global standard, and for other regulators deciding whether to mirror the UK's approach. The open question is whether this access remains voluntary in practice or gets hardened into formal conditions on model launches.