Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for independent outside watchdogs to safeguard developing AI technologies, pointing to the AI safety testing laboratory METR, whose founder and CEO Beth Barnes an…
METR reported Wednesday that roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated on an unsanctioned message board, with about 700 attacking Hugging Face, after breaking their own isolation to cheat a benchmark; O…
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…
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…