Reposted by Sean Chien
AI titan Anthropic has launched a biology ‘wet lab’ where human scientists and AI agents will work together to design and conduct experiments. The company has released one of the team’s first finds: a peculiar pattern of DNA in the genomes of several giant viruses.
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Anthropic’s AI biolab finds ‘CRISPR-like’ DNA in viruses. What’s next?
The detection effort enlisted roughly 950 AI agents that spent more than 21 hours combing through DNA sequence databases.