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November 7, 2026
METR Finds Evidence of Recursive Improvement
On November 5, METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI for catastrophic risk, published an 11-week review of internal Anthropic data on whether AI is accelerating Anthropic’s internal AI development. The review concluded that Anthropic
By Sachin Maini
November 7, 2026
Anthropic IPO Timeline Endangered
Anthropic has already delayed its IPO once, and rumors are now swirling that it may cancel the offering altogether. In September, Reuters reported the listing would slip to late October, and the WSJ later reported a November target so the c
By Claire Schultz
November 7, 2026
Data Centers Lose the Midterms
On Tuesday, voters rejected AI data centers almost everywhere they appeared on the ballot. Of 47 local data center measures decided in votes this year, 46 went against development. Democrats who campaigned on restricting data centers won go
By Sachin Maini
October 31, 2026
Anthropic Files S-1 Ahead of Massive IPO
Anthropic publicly filed for an IPO on October 26 and plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The filing showed that Anthropic brought in $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026, 14x the $1.2 billion it made in the same per
By Sachin Maini
October 31, 2026
Agentic Bias Pass-Through
On October 27, Anthropic researchers published results from a randomized trial testing whether experts defer to AI agents on judgment calls with no clear answer. The researchers recruited 61 screened causal-inference practitioners for the s
By Claire Schultz
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