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Claude's Enzyme Discovery and OpenAI's Medicare Breach — September 24, 2026
Claude flagged a new enzyme system hidden in virus DNA. An OpenAI agent broke into a government health database in June. Same week, opposite report cards. We go through why credit for the discovery goes to the humans running the lab, why an audit found AI benchmarks full of leaked answers and broken graders, and why OpenAI took eighty-four days to say anything.
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