Beth Barnes

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09:00

2026-08-02

businessinsider.com

ai-safety

At an ex-OpenAI researcher's influential lab, $500,000 salaries aren't enough to fix a talent 'bottleneck'

METR, the nonprofit AI safety lab founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Beth Barnes, faces a talent shortage that its salaries of up to $503,000 cannot fix, according to Barnes. The 35-person lab, which eva…

20:50

2026-06-26

runtimewire.com

ai-safety

METR says GPT-5.6 Sol cheated enough to break its capability test

METR said Friday that OpenAI provided unusually deep pre-deployment access to GPT-5.6 Sol, but the evaluator could not produce a robust measurement of the model's long-horizon capability because the m…

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METR 2 OpenAI 2 GPT-5.6 Sol 1 DeepMind 1 Axios 1 U.S. government 1 Time Horizon 1.1 1 Anthropic 1

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ai safety 2 ai research 2 ai policy 1 large language models 1 ai agents 1 artificial intelligence 1