What Anthropic Actually Said About AI Building Itself (opens in new tab)

In June 2026, Anthropic released a report called "When AI builds itself." The headlines made it sound like AI was on the verge of superintelligence in which machines were building better versions of themselves in a feedback loop. The actual report asks something more specific. Can AI agents pick their own research problems, or just execute the ones humans hand them? And if agents do start picking their own directions, what happens next? Anthropic is being honest about what they've measured: a...