METR audit finds Anthropic may have crossed its AI acceleration warning threshold

Nonprofit METR spent 11 weeks auditing Anthropic's internal research data and concluded the pace of model development roughly doubled, with about 80% of the speedup driven by AI-assisted research. Anthropic redacted the most informative evidence, so the public must rely on METR's judgment, and some inside the company are skeptical.

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