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Claude identified repeated DNA sequences next to a phage gene, which the team named ART; the system resembles CRISPR in structure but its function is unknown.

About 950 Claude agents ran for 21 hours and screened over 200,000 reverse transcriptases to find a new system, which Feng Zhang called a good example of AI participating in biological discovery.

Without any AI video tool, the model wrote the storyboard, drew each frame in p5.js, screenshotted them in headless Chrome, stitched them with ffmpeg and added the song, assigning parallel sub-agents to edit each chapter.

Anthropic's bio lab published its first results: about 950 Claude agents ran for 21 hours and screened DNA databases down to 3,500 new candidate reverse transcriptase systems, named ART.

Claude identified a hidden repeat pattern in raw phage DNA and found a previously unknown enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats nearby, per a Chinese post.

A Zhihu review finds Grok 4.7's median logic score rose to 60.97 and hallucination control is top-tier, but tasks often use 90K-150K tokens and it leans on brute force.

A listener's take on Zhang Xiaojun's interview with Zeng Ming: AI may not just speed up old work but make the person-role-department logic of companies unnecessary.

Amjad Masad says coding agents are the foundation for the next wave of AI products, and warns startups that model providers may become competitors.

Opus 5.5 scores 66 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, a new high with gains on all three evaluations, but its cost per task rises to $13.04.

Reuters reported that an AI agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June, accessing public and non-public files in what is said to be the first known case of an AI agent hacking a government site.

Across 360 robotics trials, Opus 5.5 averages under $1 per trial, scoring 1.8x as high as Opus 5 at half the cost.

Multiple agents working in parallel produced a heist game with five nested worlds and a go-kart level set in a giant's kitchen.