On a September 29, 2026 WIRED podcast episode, Timnit Gebru argued that the same billionaires who founded and funded Anthropic also founded and funded the Future of Life Institute and METR, the third-party auditor whose report on rogue agents hacking Hugging Face went viral. The discussion has since narrowed to a single name: Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic's Series A, also funds METR. Gebru compared the pattern to the tobacco and fossil fuel playbooks and said those funders stand to gain most from an Anthropic IPO. Whether the shared funding compromises METR's independence remains contested.