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Anthropic gives METR employee-like access to evaluate frontier AI risksSix METR employees received company hardware, office space and access to internal tools and systems broadly comparable to Anthropic’s own risk-assessment teams. Anthropic says METR will be able to publish risk assessments without prior approval under the highest planned evaluator-access tier.→Frontier labs face a dispute over independent evaluators’ publication rightsThe companies have publicly supported independent evaluation, but Reuters reported that negotiations include restrictions intended to protect trade secrets and prevent information from moving between labs. Proposed safeguards include lab observation of evaluators and limits on simultaneous work for competing providers.→AI-generated political ads intensify transparency concerns in VictoriaThe Guardian reported that Fix Victoria spent up to A$100,000 in August on social-media political advertising featuring AI-generated images. The campaign and related groups echoed opposition talking points, while disclosure loopholes made it difficult to identify who was financing the material.→Marin begins a publicly tracked 535B-parameter open training runThe announced run uses 80% pretraining and 20% midtraining across an 18.75T-token mixture over roughly three months, with estimated compute of 2.7e24 FLOPs. Marin says its data mixture, sampled documents and live training loss will be available through GitHub and Weights & Biases.→