The Loop  ·  Issue N°040

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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  1. · News

    The essay named a nonprofit — the contract went to a Big Four consultancy — On Thursday September 18, 2026, Anthropic named its first embedded evaluator under the Pace the Frontier commitment, six days after Dario Amodei's essay held up METR as the shape of an independent evaluator, and the pick was Accenture, whose AI subsidiary Faculty was acquired eight months ago, at $1 billion each over five years, on employee-level access and a non-exclusive contract

    Six days after Amodei's Pace the Frontier essay named METR as the model for an independent evaluator, Anthropic's first pick is Accenture — $1B each over five years, employee-level access, non-exclusive. METR is still "in dialogue" and paying for its own pilot.

    Sep 19, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor

  2. · News

    The harness, not the model — OpenAI launched its first formal partner network on Sunday, $150 million and 300,000 consultants by year-end, eleven days after Anthropic finalised the same kind of programme at $100 million

    On June 14, 2026 OpenAI announced its Partner Network — $150M, four launch partners, 300,000 certified consultants targeted by year-end. The number matches Anthropic's Claude Corps to the dollar. Both companies arrived at the same conclusion in the same fortnight.

    Jun 17, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor