METR time horizon

Timeline

1. Oct 18, 2026 · Product / feature launch · 2 sources
   Investing in the public benefit
   Today, we’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity with a structure that increases the stake as the company grows.
2. Oct 18, 2026 · Product / feature launch · 3 sources
   Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
   Anthropic has granted external evaluators “employee-like access” to assess the risks of its models, following through on a commitment to increase safeguards over concerns the technology could run catastrophically out of control.
3. Oct 15, 2026 · Product / feature launch · 1 source
   An update on independent evaluators
   Today, we’re announcing that we’ve started to give employee-like access to a team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models.
4. Oct 14, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 3 sources
   [AINews] not much happened today
   More AI safety intrigue in the alignment below.
5. Oct 8, 2026 · Research paper · 1 source
   On the estimation and validity of AI time horizons---a statistical look at the METR plot
   On 228 tasks and 26 AIs, we recompute the time horizons using splines and item-response theory to relax the assumption that the AI difficulty of a task depends linearly on the log of human time.
6. Sep 30, 2026 · Model release · 1 source
   Last Week in AI #345 - 5 new models, 9 misalignment incidents, some Dots
   Anthropic and OpenAI race to release smarter and cheaper models
7. Sep 28, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
   What Also Happened: #NotOnlyHuggingFace
   OpenAI has been holding out on us.

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