Anthropic: AI model Claude helping build next version of it

The Hill - Sep 18, 2026

Anthropic's chatbot Claude is leading more than a quarter of the artificial intelligence (AI) firm's research and development efforts, the company revealed Thursday. The report marks the latest sign of AI's growing capabilities within the development space itself, building on months of suggestions from researchers that the technology is getting closer to building and self-improving....

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