Anthropic gives METR employee-level access
What happened
On 16 October 2026, TechCrunch reported that Anthropic announced it is giving six researchers from the non-profit evaluation organisation METR employee-level access. According to the report, Anthropic provides these six researchers with company laptops, office space and internal tools roughly equivalent to those of its internal risk assessment team, so they can independently evaluate its models, safety practices and risk management. This is the latest development in the matter, and no earlier reports exist for comparison, so there are no inconsistencies in figures, dates or wording.
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- TechCrunch · AIAnthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.
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