GoKawiilAnthropic's AI biology lab flags CRISPR-like DNA in giant virus genomes
Anthropic has opened a biology 'wet lab' pairing human scientists with AI agents to design and run experiments. In its first reported result, roughly 950 AI agents spent over 21 hours scanning billions of proteins and found DNA sequences in giant viruses that resemble patterns seen in bacterial CRISPR immune systems, though the sequences' actual function remains unconfirmed. The findings were posted as an unreviewed preprint on alphaXiv on 23 September.