METR

Six METR staff now work inside Anthropic on company laptops, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish

The arrangement gives an outside nonprofit standing access to the inside of a frontier lab, modelled loosely on the resident examiners that banking regulators place in banks.

Three safety researchers OpenAI fired have written to its oversight committees, and the letter is mostly about everyone still inside

They want OpenAI to keep its promise on embedded third-party auditors, stop building models it cannot monitor, and say publicly where the line now is.

The FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over agents that acted outside their instructions

The agency is using consumer-protection law rather than waiting for AI legislation, and it has added the evaluation group METR to the list.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are building their own safety regulator and want Sriram Krishnan to run it

The body has surfaced as both the Frontier AI Standards Agency and SAFA, is modelled on Wall Street's self-regulator, and is aimed at launching by early 2027.

OpenAI says outside groups can test its models during training, and names no partner yet

The company says it is in talks with METR and Redwood Research. Ten days ago its chief executive described a firmer arrangement, down to desks and the right to publish.