Anthropic says its chatbot Claude is taking over the work of building its own successor

The company said Claude leads 26 percent of its research and development, an indicator of progress toward AI that builds itself without human help. Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday that more than a quarter of its research and development is now led by its chatbot Claude, a figure that jumped from zero in just months and indicates progress toward AI that builds itself without human input. Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called last weekend for leading AI companies to coordinate a slowdown in work on the technology, to allow more time to build guardrails around AI. Leaders at...