DSIT ↔ OpenAI
Directly documented interface
Formal cooperation
Named parties enter a defined memorandum or research agreement; implementation separately documented.
undirected. undirected
Displayed claim → analysis (if present) → coded attributes → interface / instrument → atomic evidence → source version
Instrument and timeline
- Instrument
- Formal cooperation
- Bindingness
- Explicitly voluntary and non-legally binding
- Announced
- 2025-07-21
- Observed by
- 2025-07-21 · day
- Effective period
- Unknown → Unknown
- Event
- Announced
- Status at cutoff
- unresolved/unknown
- Last confirmation
- 2026-07-02
No material conflict recorded; no absence of conflict inferred.
- Voluntary memorandum; does not establish delivery of every contemplated activity.
Status investigation
Checked 2026-09-12; assessed as of 2026-09-12. Last confirmation does not establish uninterrupted continuity.
- amendments
- unknown
- expiry
- unknown
- termination
- investigated within listed sources
- restrictions
- investigated within listed sources
- succession
- see succession.json
- conflicts
- No material conflict recorded; no absence of conflict inferred.
Search queries
- "dsit" "openai" cooperation 2026 amendment termination expiry status before:2026-09-13
Analytical assessment
No reviewed analytical conclusion is attached. This does not establish independence or absence of an institutional constraint.
Coded attributes
Atomic evidence and exact sources
DSIT confirms work with OpenAI under the July 2025 memorandum.
- Source
- Parliamentary answer HL1108 · DSIT
- Version
- 2026-07-02; retrieved 2026-09-12
- Exact locator
- Answer to HL1108
- Limit
- Last confirmed activity, not uninterrupted status through September.
DSIT and openai record shared cooperation intent in a memorandum.
- Source
- UK–openai cooperation memorandum · DSIT
- Version
- 2025-07-21; retrieved 2026-09-12
- Exact locator
- Introduction; Section 4: technical information exchange; final paragraph on voluntary and nonbinding terms
- Limit
- Voluntary memorandum; does not establish delivery of every contemplated activity.
Retrieved bytes SHA-256: 8db3af0de5a7db1c96383344bf3bb92b8a5fbe34e7eddabc571396ed5bb247c7
Supporting and conflicting evidence
Interface support: e-uk-openai-cooperation, uk-openai-current. Counterevidence: None recorded; this does not mean none exists.
Substantive review
evidence/uk-openai-current: approved · agent reviewer codex-research-checker · 2026-09-12
Parliamentary answer HL1108 on July2 confirms work under the July2025 memorandum; this is dated activity evidence, not September certification. Checked locator: Answer to HL1108. Source version: 2026-07-02.
Approval fingerprint: 1e7930e6d70cddee066b09a959f5046c89228cfdbf91ecb37db5b43d6212271a
instruments/i-uk-openai-cooperation: approved · agent reviewer codex-research-checker · 2026-09-12
Full memorandum explicitly states voluntary/non-legally-binding terms.
Approval fingerprint: 1e7930e6d70cddee066b09a959f5046c89228cfdbf91ecb37db5b43d6212271a
relationships/uk-openai-cooperation: approved · agent reviewer codex-research-checker · 2026-09-12
Full voluntary memorandum and July2026 parliamentary follow-up support named DSIT/OpenAI cooperation. Nonbinding terms and unknown uninterrupted September status retained.
Approval fingerprint: 1e7930e6d70cddee066b09a959f5046c89228cfdbf91ecb37db5b43d6212271a
evidence/e-uk-openai-cooperation: approved · agent reviewer codex-primary · 2026-09-12
Independently inspected the primary source at the recorded locator. Narrow proposition, attribution, date/version and stated limit supported; conflicting access/technical/status accounts remain separate.
Approval fingerprint: 1e7930e6d70cddee066b09a959f5046c89228cfdbf91ecb37db5b43d6212271a