Anthropic's Opus 4.7 is the latest AI model to assert aesthetic 'taste,' joining a trend of AI makers attributing human-like qualities to frontier models.

MIT Technology Review publishes an in-depth analysis of METR's controversial time horizon plot, which has been widely misinterpreted by both AI optimists and pessimists. The graph, which shows AI models' improving ability to complete tasks over time, has led some to believe AI utopia or apocalypse is imminent. The article clarifies the true meaning of the data and addresses common misconceptions about AI capability measurements and progress trajectories.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that artificial intelligence will be capable of performing all the tasks of a software engineer within the next 6 to 12 months.