Spotify's co-CEO revealed during earnings that their most senior engineers haven't written a single line of code since December. Internal AI system Honk and Claude Code have taken their place.
An Anthropic researcher ran 16 Opus 4.6 agents in parallel for two weeks to build a 100,000-line C compiler. Cost: $20,000. Whether it compares to GCC's 37-year history is another question.
A side project created by an engineer named Boris Cherny in Anthropic's experimental division crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue within 6 months and has now grown to $2.5 billion.
In the first week of February 2026, over 6 safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI quit simultaneously. Ads, adult mode, autonomous weapons — each had their red line crossed.
The U.S. Department of Defense issued an ultimatum to Anthropic: remove AI safeguards by Friday. Refuse, and they will invoke the Defense Production Act to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk equivalent to enemy nations.