Anthropic published three measurements of its own pace on Thursday, drawn… [Sep 18 2026]
Anthropic published three measurements of its own pace on Thursday, drawn from inside the company. As of August 2026 it says Claude “leads” 26% of Anthropic’s AI R&D work, up from under 1% in February 2026, with the share at or above “AI collaborates” above 90%. It says approximately 30,000 agents were doing research and engineering work at any one time on its main internal platform, that 0.002% of over a billion agent decisions were blocked, and that in the week of July 13 to July 20 about 6% of compute going to AI R&D went to safety. What agents can do to a frontier lab was demonstrated…
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