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Anthropic Makes Claude-Driven Machines Stop If the Link Drops
Anthropic’s rewritten Usage Policy takes effect Thursday. Anyone letting Claude drive hardware that could injure people must keep a human able to stop it, and the machine must halt if…
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METR finds Anthropic's models improving about twice as fast as before, largely with AI help. Anthropic redacted most of the evidence that backed the claim.
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