Anthropic builds a biology lab for AI-driven rare disease drug treatments
McDonaghMatthew · x · 2026-09-18
According to WatcherGuru, Anthropic has built a biology lab to develop AI-driven drug treatments for rare diseases. The poster reacts with "Is this a threat?", prompting discussion about frontier AI labs moving directly into drug discovery themselves.
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