OpenAI and Anthropic urge UK lawmakers to pass binding AI rules

Frontier AI developers told Parliament they back mandatory, capability-based requirements as MI5 warned AI could help create bioweapons Tech companies usually lobby governments to regulate them less. On October 13, 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic went to Westminster and asked for rules with actual teeth. The two AI developers backed binding UK requirements for the most powerful AI systems at a broad parliamentary session in the House of Commons. A few hundred meters away, Britain’s top domestic spy was warning that the same technology could help bad actors build new bioweapons. The session pulled together an unusual lineup.

Source: Crypto Briefing