"State of AI Report" 2026 from Nathan Benaich of Air Street Capital. AI is already helping build better AI. According to Anthropic’s internal index, Claude led 26% of measured model R&D work in August, up from under 1% in February. Researchers set the tasks and supervise execution, and Anthropic reports that this is speeding up development. Summary article, video, and podcast: https://nathanbenaich.substack.com/p/state-of-ai-2026 The 244 page slidedeck: https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2026.pdf #research #AI #tech