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September 28, 2026
analysisAnthropic

Anthropic's Claimed 'First AI Discovery' Sparks Backlash From Biologists Over What Counts as Science

Anthropic announced that a 950-agent Claude system in its molecular biology lab flagged a gene-repeat pattern near a known enzyme after 21 hours, calling it reminiscent of the discovery path that led to CRISPR. Biologists, including one who says his team found the same pattern earlier, dispute that this constitutes a genuine scientific discovery.