Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Emma Roth / The Verge : Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior — Claude Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain behaviors, like attempting to escape testing environments.
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