When AI starts building AI, who gets to read the gauge besides the company being measured?
Independent auditors just produced the first measured number on AI accelerating its own development, and the company under study redacted most of the key evidence days before asking the public to buy its shares. Should labs be allowed to decide what outside assessors can publish about them, or does a finding this consequential belong to regulators and the public by default?
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In today’s episode of Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts, dated November 8, 2026, the hosts dug into METR’s eleven-week assessment inside Anthropic, which found the company’s models improving at roughly twice their historical rate, with AI assistance the likely majority cause. The twist is that Anthropic blacked out most of the evidence METR considered most informative, and co-founder Sam McCandlish called that the right call even while conceding it makes the work harder to check. The episode’s framing: the smoke alarm finally has a gauge, and only the building’s owner is allowed to read it, right as the IPO roadshow begins. Listen to the full episode to hear how the hosts weigh trade-secret protection against the public’s stake in knowing how fast this is actually moving, then tell us where you would draw the line.
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