AnthropicAnalysisScienceSeptember 23, 2026

Anthropic says Claude discovered a CRISPR-like enzyme system

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Claude spent 21 hours and ~210M tokens across ~950 parallel agents to flag the system, named ART (array-associated reverse transcriptases), in bacteriophage DNA. Dario Amodei concedes its "precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear."

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