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16 October 2026

Anthropic gives METR staff employee-level access to audit its AI models

First reported

TechCrunch ran this on , a day before the other 3 sources picked it up.

  • Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, gave six staff from the nonprofit METR internal access to its systems.
  • The reviewers get company hardware, office space and internal tools roughly equal to Anthropic's own risk teams, and METR will publish its findings independently.
  • Customer data, privileged legal material and model architecture details remain off-limits, and Anthropic can request redactions in some categories.

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Reported by The Decoder, ZDNET, CNBC, TechCrunch