Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing how he set 16 instances of the company’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model loose on a shared codebase with minimal supervision, tasking ...

Anthropic has demonstrated the extent of autonomous AI development with a remarkable experiment. Sixteen AI agents built a C compiler almost entirely independently, but the results show both ...

An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," "concerned," and "uneasy." It also left many observers on GitHub skeptical, to say ...

FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers. Today's compilers boil down code into its most efficient form, but in ...

Anthropic has revealed a striking experiment where AI systems worked together to build a complete C compiler almost entirely on their own. Led by researcher Nicholas Carlini, the project shows how far ...

Sixteen autonomous AI agents collaborated to independently build a full C compiler, showcasing unprecedented progress in machine-driven software engineering. Just days after unsettling the SaaS ...

Amid a push toward AI agents, with both Anthropic and OpenAI shipping multi-agent tools this week, Anthropic is more than ready to show off some of its more daring AI coding experiments. But as usual ...

Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents built a Rust-based C compiler in two weeks The compiler passed 99 percent of GCC torture tests and compiled the game Doom Anthropic's AI can handle complex software ...

Days after putting SaaS companies on alert with Claude Cowork, Anthropic has now revealed that its Claude Opus 4.6 model can build a C compiler from scratch. Here is why it is a big deal. Anthropic, ...

Abstract: The functional correctness of compiler optimization does not ensure the security properties of the source program. A functionally correct compiler optimization may introduce new security ...