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Ajeya: AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now
This is the moment the industry has been watching for: AI systems materially speeding up their own development. Anthropic committed publicly to halt deployment if this happened, and they appear to have just hit it. The S1 filing telegraphed this, but METR's independent verification makes it real. For builders and investors: capability velocity is about to change shape, and the compliance and governance stakes just shifted from theoretical to immediate. For Anthropic specifically: the policy now forces a decision about what "halt" means operationally.