Reuters: Anthropic quietly builds wet lab to push AI into drug science
verdakorzeniews · x · 2026-09-19
Per Reuters Legal, Anthropic has quietly set up a physical biology laboratory as it pushes its AI ambitions into drug science — moving from models into real-world wet-lab experiments.
The news sparked jokes on X about runaway agent swarms and Dario begging the Senate to be stopped, reflecting both excitement and unease about AI companies running autonomous biology work.
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