Anthropic said in September 2026 that its Claude chatbot now leads what share of the company's research and development work?

Explanation: Anthropic said its Claude chatbot now leads more than a quarter of the company's research and development work and collaborates with human staff on more than 90 percent of tasks, describing AI systems as moving towards building themselves. The statement fuelled discussion about recursive self-improvement in AI development, automation of technical labour and the pace at which frontier AI companies are integrating their own models into internal engineering and research pipelines.