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Nov 5, 2026

Anthropic's AI models improving at twice the previous rate, METR study finds

Independent AI safety organization METR published a risk assessment finding Anthropic is improving its models on well-specified tasks at roughly twice the rate seen between March 2024 and October 2025, amplifying warnings about accelerating AI capability gains.

Nov 5, 2026·2 sources

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▪METR reported that Anthropic's capability acceleration is likely driven by its extensive internal use of AI tools to perform research and development tasks
▪METR based its 11-week assessment of Anthropic, conducted between August and October 2026, on confidential research, employee interviews, and performance data from unreleased models
▪AI researchers warned that recursive self-improvement could make advanced AI systems difficult to monitor, control, or align with human goals, potentially posing an existential threat

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AI capabilities1 AI coding1 AI evaluation1 AI Safety1 Frontier models1 Recursive self-improvement1

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