Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Anthropic reports that its Claude model autonomously identified a novel enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, resembling CRISPR. The discovery required nearly 1,000 Claude agents, 21 hours of computation, and 210 million tokens. This marks the first result from Anthropic’s new biolab.