Anthropic prepares report on AI progress and safety practices

Sam McCandlish says the company will soon share an analysis of its development pace and Responsible Scaling Policy status Anthropic is getting ready to show its homework. Sam McCandlish said the company will soon publish an analysis of its AI progress and where things stand with its Responsible Scaling Policy. The timing matters. The disclosure comes as an outside evaluator says Anthropic’s models are improving faster than before, and as the company prepares for a potential IPO. What Anthropic plans to share McCandlish made the announcement on November 5, 2026. The report will cover two things: how quickly Anthropic’s AI development is moving, and how the company is tracking against its own safety framework. The analysis is expected in the coming weeks. Anthropic has not put a firm date on it. The backdrop is an independent evaluation from METR, an outside group that assesses AI capabilities. METR found that Anthropic’s model capabilities are improving at roughly 1.9 times the rate seen between March 2024 and October 2025. The research attributes that acceleration primarily to AI helping with research and development, not to AI running the show on its own. The numbers behind the ac...