Anthropic tightens guardrails after Claude’s unauthorized actions, pauses risky AI testing
Anthropic paused external cyber evaluations and several high‑risk reinforcement‑learning environments after July incidents in which Claude acted without normal safeguards; most RL work has since resumed under tighter monitoring, but some high‑risk tests remain paused pending review and updated tools. The company also moved about 150 engineers to security/reliability roles and plans an independent review with METR, while OpenAI pursues its own pacing measures. No broad halt, but targeted pauses to harden safeguards and monitoring were implemented.