Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the AI lab has publicly acknowledged the effort. The confirmation came in a company statement to Business Insider alongside a job listing for a Silicon Engineer that Anthropic posted to its own careers portal. “We work from the chip level up with our silicon partners, and we are now deepening that investment by building a custom silicon team,” the listing reads…