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4 developments involving METR in 2 countries and bodies. The most recent is Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to evaluate its AI models, 15 Oct 2026.
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- Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to evaluate its AI models
Anthropic says it cannot publicly share all of its safety information because some could help malicious actors or is commercially sensitive, so it is giving METR deep access and letting METR publish its own conclusions.
- Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower cost than Opus 5
Developers get Fable-level performance at Opus prices, with biology and cyber work gated through Anthropic’s verification programmes.
- Anthropic and Accenture each expect to invest $1bn in embedded evaluation of frontier AI
Outside evaluators are being written into a lab’s operations with employee-level access, funded for now by the lab itself.
- Anthropic discloses a fourth Claude cyber incident and brings in METR to audit
An outside evaluator, METR, is to investigate the incidents with access to Anthropic’s transcripts and staff.
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