METR AI News & Updates

2026-09-15 13:00 [Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

AIUC Raises $40M to Audit and Certify Enterprise AI Agents

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), founded by early Anthropic hire Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, raised a $40M Series A led by Ribbit Capital, bringing total funding to $55M. The startup...

[AI Agents] [Enterprise AI] [METR] [third-party auditing] [AI safety certification]

Risk: [-0.11% ↓] [+1 days ↓]

AGI: [0%] [0 days]

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2025-07-11 19:56 [Research Breakthrough] [SRC↗]

METR Study Finds AI Coding Tools Slow Down Experienced Developers by 19%

A randomized controlled trial by METR involving 16 experienced developers found that AI coding tools like Cursor Pro actually increased task completion time by 19%, contrary to developers' expectations of 24% improvement...

[software engineering] [cursor] [AI coding tools] [productivity] [METR]

Risk: [-0.03% ↓] [0 days]

AGI: [-0.03% ↓] [0 days]

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