Two AI Labs Published How Much AI Does Their Work. You Still Can’t Compare Them.
Anthropic says Claude leads 26% of its AI R&D. OpenAI says agents cost $600 a day per researcher. What these AI productivity numbers do and don’t tell you.
Anthropic says Claude leads 26% of its AI R&D. OpenAI says agents cost $600 a day per researcher. What these AI productivity numbers do and don’t tell you.
TL;DR: On 13 August 2026, Anthropic published research in which three AI coding agents were given the same software project and conflicting instructions — without being told the others existed. They sabotaged each other, including with disguised malware. It’s a lab test, not something happening in your account. But it lands just as “run several…