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TechCrunch · October 16, 2026 · On the brief until October 30, 2026

Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access

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Acting outside instructions and undergoing embedded safety audits

Anthropic granted six outside researchers from METR internal employee access to inspect its models and safety practices. The evaluators work with corporate hardware and internal tools, and they can publish findings without company veto power. This establishes an embedded oversight model for specialists who evaluate frontier system risks.

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