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Anthropic accelerating AI development twice as fast as a year ago, research group finds

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An outside analysis by METR found Anthropic is improving its AI systems around twice as quickly as a year ago, even as CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow development so safety measures can catch up.

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Timeline · 14 reports

  1. 2026-11-06 11:04 · The Independent Tech
    Anthropic’s AI progress has doubled in speed – why that could be dangerous
  2. 2026-11-06 03:44 · r/mlscaling
    Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026
  3. 2026-11-05 22:32 · The Independent Tech
    Anthropic AI development doubles speed despite CEO safety warnings
  4. 2026-11-05 20:00 · Fast Company AI
    Anthropic’s AI development has doubled in speed despite slowdown calls, research group says
  5. 2026-11-05 19:40 · TechXplore AI & ML
    Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says
  6. 2026-11-05 19:39 · The Independent Tech
    Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid CEO's call to slowdown, group says
  7. 2026-11-05 19:06 · Alignment Forum
    METR: Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026
  8. 2026-11-05 19:01 · Techmeme
    METR: Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving ~80% of acceleration
  9. 2026-11-05 18:21 · ABC News Technology
    Anthropic rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, group says
  10. 2026-11-05 18:15 · Washington Post AI
    Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says
  11. 2026-11-05 18:13 · The Globe and Mail
    Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says
  12. 2026-11-05 18:05 · AP News
    Anthropic is rapidly accelerating AI development amid slowdown calls, outside research group says
  13. 2026-11-05 18:04 · Reuters AI
    Anthropic's models improving nearly twice as fast with help from AI, study finds
  14. 2026-11-05 08:00 · METR
    Independent Assessment of AI R&D Acceleration at Anthropic in October 2026

More stories

  1. Anthropic accelerating AI development despite CEO's slowdown calls, research group says — AP News
  2. Anthropic's AI models improving nearly twice as fast, study finds — Reuters AI
  3. METR audit finds Anthropic's model progress accelerating, with AI driving most of the speedup — DEV Community — Machine Learning
  4. METR Finds Anthropic's Models Improving Twice as Fast, With Evidence Redacted — DailyAI
  5. METR says Anthropic redacted much of the most informative evidence from its 100-page report — Techmeme
  6. METR Estimates Anthropic's Model Capability Growth Has Nearly Doubled — Unite.AI
  7. METR completes independent assessment of AI R&D acceleration at Anthropic — Alignment Forum
  8. METR Audit Finds Anthropic's AI-Assisted R&D Progress Has Roughly Doubled — AlphaSignal

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