Anthropic researchers successfully deployed 16 instances of the company's Claude Opus 4.6 AI model to build a C compiler from scratch, a project that cost approximately $20,000 in API fees and took two weeks to complete. The announcement of this achievement, published on Thursday, comes amid a flurry of activity in the AI field, including the release of OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex and the ongoing "AI coding wars" between the two tech giants, as reported by Ars Technica and VentureBeat.
The AI agents worked on a shared codebase with minimal supervision, according to Ars Technica. The project's completion highlights the advancements in multi-agent AI tools, with both Anthropic and OpenAI releasing such tools this week. This development is part of a broader trend, as the "OpenClaw moment" signifies autonomous AI agents moving into the general workforce, as VentureBeat noted.
The synchronized launches of the new AI models mark the opening salvo in the AI coding wars, a high-stakes battle to capture the enterprise software development market, according to VentureBeat. OpenAI's GPT-5.3-Codex was released on Wednesday, coinciding with Anthropic's unveiling of Claude Opus 4.6. The two companies are also set to air competing Super Bowl advertisements on Sunday, and their executives have been publicly trading barbs over business models, access, and corporate ethics, VentureBeat reported.
In other news, defense attorneys for a Minnesota man convicted of assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross are seeking access to investigative files related to the killing of Renee Nicole Good, after learning Ross was the same officer who shot and killed her during a targeted operation in Minneapolis last month, as reported by Wired. Attorneys for Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala asked a federal judge on Friday to order prosecutors to turn over training records as well as investigative files related to Ross.
In a separate development, an experimental surgical procedure is helping cancer survivors give birth. Surgeons are pioneering a potential solution: simply stitch those organs out of the way during cancer treatment. Last week, a team in Switzerland shared news that a baby boy had been born after his mother had the procedure. Baby Lucien was the fifth baby to be born after the surgery and the first in Europe, according to MIT Technology Review.
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