Reuters: Anthropic Quietly Set Up Bay Area Wet Lab for AI Drug Discovery
mallow610 · x · 2026-09-18
Per Reuters, Anthropic has quietly established a wet lab in the Bay Area to develop its AI drug discovery program — a notable expansion of a frontier AI lab into hands-on biology. The resharing poster voices unease about Anthropic being the company they least trust to do this, reflecting ongoing debate about labs' capabilities spilling into high-stakes domains.
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