Copenhagen Scientists Question Anthropic's Claimed AI Scientific Discovery
Anthropic claimed its biology lab used AI agents to independently discover promising new enzymes called ARTs, but Copenhagen University computational biologists told The New York Times the findings may have been previously made or drawn from their own unpublished research.
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