Anthropic opens wet lab, OpenAI launches legal search in AI news roundup
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-19
A dense morning roundup: Anthropic opened a biology "wet lab" in San Francisco to execute experiments for drug-discovery partners rather than compete; OpenAI launched "Astra for Law," directly competing with Harvey; three independent researchers broke into OpenAI's private GitHub repo via open-source library vulnerabilities and collected a bug bounty; Governor Newsom ordered a 60-day review of a frontier-model killswitch, seen as counter-positioning against the Trump administration; and the federal government is discussing opening federal lands to datacenters.
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