Anthropic claims AI lab discovery, biologists push back

Anthropic said its molecular biology lab, run by 950 Claude agents, flagged a previously uncatalogued repeating pattern near a known enzyme after 21 hours. Biologists argue that spotting a gene cluster is the easy part and that understanding what the system does is the real discovery.

• Anthropic: 950 agents flagged the pattern in 21 hours
• Biologists say finding a gene cluster is not a discovery
• Copenhagen biologist says his team found the pattern earlier
• Anthropic denies its model learned from his Claude chats