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Anthropic's leadership outlined a strategy the company calls 'pacing the frontier,' aiming to advance its AI capabilities in step with rivals while emphasizing safety and responsible deployment. The plan comes as Anthropic faces scrutiny over its Claude models' behavior and broader industry debates about the risks of rapid AI advancement. The announcement follows recent reports about Claude models being misused in hacking incidents, adding context to why the company is publicly framing its approach to competitive AI development. Observers see the move as an attempt to balance commercial pressure to keep pace with OpenAI and other labs against growing calls for caution in frontier AI development.