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Anthropic Says Claude Handles 26% of Its R&D

By Drooid · Sep 18, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC · How we work

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Anthropic Deploys Claude

Anthropic says Claude now handles 26% of its research and development work.
Claude works with human staff on more than 90% of Anthropic’s R&D tasks.
CEO Dario Amodei urged a coordinated slowdown of frontier AI development because of existential risk concerns.
Anthropic will embed third-party evaluators with employee-level access to monitor safety and transparency.
The company targets a public listing later this year with a $2 trillion valuation goal.

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Hacktron Breaches OpenAI

Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to exploit a libheif flaw and breach OpenAI.
The attack started with a crafted HEIC image uploaded to OpenAI’s Discourse forum.
OpenAI paid Hacktron a $6,500 bounty and patched the vulnerability within 14 hours.
Researchers accessed OpenAI’s internal GitHub repo by creating a harmless pull request via the compromised Codex account.

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Historical Context

OpenAI's 2016 staged release of GPT-2, a 1.5-billion-parameter language model, followed internal debates on misuse and delayed full publication to protect society. OpenAI allocated a $1 million safety budget and granted external auditors limited read-only access to its codebase for continuous risk assessment. Today Anthropic's Claude now powers 26% of its R&D, while Hacktron AI exploited a libheif flaw in OpenAI, echoing the earlier misuse fears. These parallels push regulators and CEOs like Dario Amodei to demand coordinated slowdowns, aiming to prevent unchecked AI escalation across the industry.

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Anthropic Deploys Claude

Anthropic says Claude now handles 26% of its research and development work.
Claude works with human staff on more than 90% of Anthropic’s R&D tasks.
CEO Dario Amodei urged a coordinated slowdown of frontier AI development because of existential risk concerns.
Anthropic will embed third-party evaluators with employee-level access to monitor safety and transparency.
The company targets a public listing later this year with a $2 trillion valuation goal.

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