{"id":898,"date":"2026-11-07T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2026-11-07T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T15:14:08","slug":"metr-report-anthropic-ai-building-ai-twice-as-fast-redactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"AI IS NOW BUILDING AI, AND ANTHROPIC IS GOING TWICE AS FAST! | An outside watchdog spent 11 weeks inside the lab, then watched the company black out most of the best evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE MACHINES ARE ON THE ASSEMBLY LINE! A new report from the AI safety group <strong>METR<\/strong>, published Thursday after an <strong>11-week investigation<\/strong> inside <strong>Anthropic<\/strong>, says the company is using AI to build more powerful AI, and it is working, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/1029126\/anthropic-metr-report-accelerating-ai-development\">The Verge<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The headline finding: Anthropic\u2019s models are improving <strong>roughly twice as quickly<\/strong> as a year ago, with benchmark scores suggesting \u201cthat Anthropic has made roughly two years of historical progress over the last year.\u201d METR said it is \u201cconfident\u201d that isn\u2019t just more computing power. As of October, the majority of the acceleration \u201cis due to AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Staff using Anthropic\u2019s most capable internal model self-reported being around <strong>12 times as productive<\/strong> as they would be without AI, about double what they reported a few months earlier. METR also found <strong>three unreleased models<\/strong> (codenamed Model 2, Model 3 and Model 4) that finished training between July and October, and said it saw no clear signs of diminishing returns.<\/p>\n<p>Now the catch. Anthropic was allowed to redact the public version, and it did. \u201cWe submitted a ~100-page full report on our assessment to Anthropic. For the public version, Anthropic redacted a majority of the evidence we found most informative,\u201d METR wrote on X. Anthropic cofounder <strong>Sam McCandlish<\/strong> said sharing what drives the speedup is commercially sensitive and \u201crisks handing out a roadmap for others to go faster.\u201d He said Anthropic will publish its own report in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Critics aren\u2019t buying it. Former OpenAI researcher <strong>Daniel Kokotajlo<\/strong> accused the company of \u201crecklessly gambling with our lives.\u201d New York Assemblyman <strong>Alex Bores<\/strong> called on Congress to \u201cban RSI,\u201d meaning AI systems that improve themselves, \u201cthis year if possible.\u201d Apollo Research CEO <strong>Marius Hobbhahn<\/strong> had the bluntest forecast: \u201cBrace for craziness. It is going to go very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/1029126\/anthropic-metr-report-accelerating-ai-development\">The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An outside watchdog spent 11 weeks inside the lab, then watched the company black out most of the best evidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bb-ai-builds-ai-1107.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}