Anthropic says Claude agents in new molecular-biology lab made a 'discovery'; scientists push back
Anthropic announced it launched a molecular-biology lab where 950 Claude agents assisted researchers and, after 21 hours, flagged a previously uncatalogued repeating pattern around a known enzyme that the company called a discovery. Several biologists and figures including Eli Lilly’s leadership criticized the characterization, noting the pattern is not a new sequence, that functional validation is the hard part, and that a Copenhagen researcher says his team had already found the pattern (Anthropic denies using his chats).