Anthropic's wet lab makes first discovery: ~950 Claude agents find new gene-editing mechanism in 21 hours
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-24
Anthropic announced its new wet lab's first finding: nearly 950 Claude agents worked 21 hours and consumed 210 million tokens before one spotted an unusual repeating DNA pattern. Follow-up analysis and lab testing identified a new molecular machine that may constitute a novel gene-editing mechanism with gene therapy applications. Dario Amodei presented the preliminary finding at the UN Security Council, noting Claude led the literature review, theorizing, and experimental design while humans ran and verified experiments.
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