Claude Discovers a CRISPR-Like DNA Mystery, Now Leads 26% of Anthropic's Research
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of September 24th, 2026. Anthropic's AI biology lab made its first real discovery, running roughly 950 Claude agents for under a day across 210 million tokens to find an unfamiliar system inside bacteria-infecting viruses, marked by a CRISPR-like repeating DNA sequence that could point to a new kind of gene editor, with Dario Amodei calling the work "mostly, though not entirely" Claude's own and comparing it to something he'd have been proud of as a PhD student, while admitting nobody yet knows what the system actually does. Anthropic also published…
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