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Anthropic says Claude now writes 80%+ of its code
Jagmeet Singh & Bay Area Times
June 05, 2026
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1. Anthropic says Claude now writes 80%+ of its code
Claude helped engineers merge 8× more code daily in Q2 than in 2024, Anthropic said:
Engineers are increasingly directing and reviewing code rather than writing it themselves, according to Anthropic.
Claude’s success rate on complex, open-ended tasks reached 76% in May, up from 26% six months earlier, Anthropic said
Claude Mythos Preview has beaten human decisions 64% of the time in research tests, per Anthropic
Claude-written code is now roughly on par with human-written code at Anthropic, the company said.
Recursive self-improvement remains uncertain but increasingly plausible, Anthropic said.
However, Anthropic has urged top AI labs to consider pauses as self-improving AI advances.
Separately, Anthropic has reportedly embedded engineers at the NSA to deploy Mythos.
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3. OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT memory with user controls to review and shape what it remembers
A new memory summary page shows the memories synthesized by OpenAI’s dreaming method:
Available to U.S. Plus and Pro users, with broader rollout in coming weeks.
Users can add, update, or remove memories and guide which topics ChatGPT should remember.
2025: OpenAI launched the dreaming architecture for paid users.
Dreaming-based memory is now available to free users after efficiency improvements, OpenAI said.
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5. Trump admin said to discuss stakes in AI firms, with Sam Altman first pitching the idea in 2025
