At Anthropic, AI agents work 6 times more hours than humans. Meanwhile, junior hiring has nearly stopped: their share among new technical hires has fallen from 27% to 9%.
Agents' working hours first exceeded human hours in March 2026, and by August the ratio in sessions managed by employees had grown to 6 to 1.
At the same time, the company has tripled in size.
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Anthropic's net loss for the first half of 2026 rose from $13 billion to $80.7 billion. Of this, $72 billion is an accounting entry due to the rise in the…3
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