Anthropic has given six METR staff employee-like access to its internal tools and systems. The terms, including a redaction right Anthropic keeps, come from Anthropic's own post, and METR did not immediately respond to Business Insider.
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Accenture told employees it will centrally fund only $29 a month per person for Claude Enterprise from October 1, 404 Media reported. Some of those employees had been spending as much as $1,000 a month.
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Anthropic puts three evaluator access tiers in writing, with METR at the top
Anthropic's new framework gives six embedded METR researchers employee-like access and a right to publish without approval. Tech Times said it followed a Reuters report that Anthropic sought strict editorial authority over evaluator reports as late as Oct. 5.
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buildConfirmed4 publishers Anthropic named Accenture and its Faculty unit as embedded evaluators, backed by at least $1 billion in joint investment over five years. Employee-like access could make third-party findings on Claude more informative, though METR's role is still a planned pilot.
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Accenture CTO Marc Warner said the number of large enterprises truly reinvented around AI is "basically close to zero". Its own research, as Crypto Briefing reported it, puts the share of firms with AI-led operations at 16% for 2024, so the answer turns on what counts as rebuilt.
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AWS has committed $1 billion, OpenAI more than $4 billion and Anthropic $100 million to forward-deployed engineers, CNBC reported. The budgets buy different things, and Anthropic's pays for training engineers who stay on other employers' payrolls.
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- Evidence55
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buildConfirmed2 publishers Anthropic and OpenAI have each capitalized a separate services firm, $1.5 billion and over $4 billion, to embed engineers in enterprises. Wing partner Tanay Jaipuria treats that as evidence of an integration bottleneck.
Publishers:tanayj.com · thedatavist.substack.com
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Anthropic and OpenAI sought significant control over what outside AI evaluators can publish, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar. Both companies dispute parts of that account. The fight turns on who decides which findings are trade secrets.
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buildOne report1 publisher A dev.to post finds no grading seat in the FDE pods vendors publish
By 2028, Gartner expects 70% of enterprises to walk away from agentic AI that vendor forward-deployed engineers built. A dev.to post blames pod design, a link Gartner does not draw.
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The FBI confirmed a contractor's failure to apply a critical Oracle PeopleSoft patch, CVE-2026-35273, led to a breach affecting thousands of employees. Any organisation that outsources PeopleSoft operations is exposed in the same way wherever its operator has not installed the fix.
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FBI drops Accenture as contractor over unpatched PeopleSoft that ShinyHunters breached
FBI dropped Accenture last week for failing to patch the Oracle PeopleSoft platform ShinyHunters breached, Reuters reported. Google separately says attackers hijacked the .as, .gh and .sl registries.
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FBI Director Kash Patel says agents arrested another ShinyHunters suspect, at least the third detained in two weeks since the FBIjobs.gov breach. The group says it is leaving Telegram as members are arrested, and it has promised not to publish the FBI staff data it stole.
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Anthropic puts $100 million into training other companies' deployment engineers
Anthropic is putting $100 million into training 10,000 engineers from other companies as deployment specialists by the end of 2027. Business Insider ties the program to Claude spending ahead of an IPO, while Anthropic's executives describe a skills gap.
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Intruders sat undetected in a Pentagon personnel file-transfer system for nine months
Unauthorized users stole data on about 3 million service members from the Defense Manpower Data Center and went undetected for nine months until July. A separate FBI breach surfaced weeks apart. Only the Pentagon case has a stated dwell time.
Publishers:this.weekinsecurity.com
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OpenAI and Anthropic turn to small nonprofit evaluators whose funding is still unsettled
Anthropic and OpenAI are turning to a handful of small, mostly nonprofit evaluators such as METR, Apollo Research and Transluce to check their models. With no federal push for rules, who pays them, what they can see and whom they report to are still open.
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- Evidence55
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EY's global delivery centres added more than 10,000 staff in its 2026 financial year, more than the nearly 10,000 the whole firm gained. Outside those centres headcount was flat or slightly lower, so EY's growth is showing up as a change in where it employs people.
Reality
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- Hype gap+25
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FBI said a contractor's failure to apply a security patch on a third-party platform let ShinyHunters steal personal details of thousands of bureau employees. The patch had already been issued, so the breach came down to one missed update on a platform the Bureau did not manage itself.
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Anthropic is putting $100 million into a residency meant to train and credential 10,000 enterprise engineers on Claude by the end of 2027. Residents finish by running live Claude projects at their own employers, so the money buys deployments along with the teaching.
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Bond markets tighten US credit ahead of the Fed as the 10-year touches 5.34%
US 10-year Treasury yields briefly hit 5.34% on Thursday, the highest since 2002, while traders priced only a modest chance of a Fed hike this month. Companies and governments rolling over debt are refinancing at the long-end price whatever the Fed decides.
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Accenture plans $5 billion of acquisitions in fiscal 2027 while guiding for revenue growth of 3% to 6%. At the fourth-quarter run rate the budget tops the revenue that range adds, so the stock's case rests on how much of the growth is organic.
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Earlier coverage
- Anthropic lets committed Claude spend pay for partner software
Build · September 23, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Consulting firms are redesigning their job ladders around AI agents
Leadership · September 21, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Anthropic buys its own safety audit while calling for pooled or government funding
Invest · September 20, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Anthropic pays its biggest Claude Code customer to red-team its own models
Product · September 19, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Rising cloud waste turns cost control into a delegation problem
Leadership · September 9, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Employers are scoring workers on AI usage in performance reviews
Product · September 8, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Google Cloud puts 1,000 Accenture engineers between Gemini Enterprise and its buyers
Product · September 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Google's legal AI bundle lands a day after a $40M model, and the connector list tells you why
Build · August 26, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- AI skills now in 28.5% of security job ads, and the SOC job family is being quietly rewritten
Security · August 21, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers