Anthropic says its AI-run biology lab has already found something big — with humans still in the loop
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-24
TechCrunch reports that Anthropic says its AI-driven biology lab has already found "something big," though details remain undisclosed.
Perhaps the biggest reveal: Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in the lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop — a sign of how cautiously frontier labs approach agent autonomy in high-stakes science.
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