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Anthropic orders a slower AI frontier; third-party evaluators get model access
Sep 12, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, “brakes plus access” can slow worst-case dynamics while the old system retools—buying time for choice without stopping the inversion.
Dario Amodei calls for “pacing the frontier” and offers METR third-party evaluation access. The signal is governance-first, not capability-first, inside the inversion’s phase transition.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.