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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.

A programmer uses the free AI research workbench ScienceBuddy to search PubMed for the original papers behind a viral Xiaohongshu coffee claim, showing its trace panel.

Claude read literature and genome data to form a hypothesis, and researchers validated a previously unknown enzyme system in the lab.

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.

The Information reports that two Chinese AI companies are accused of forwarding user requests, including police surveillance footage, to Anthropic's Claude and returning the answers.

Opus 5.5 completed a 29-second animation in Motion in a single pass, telling the story of a worker bee that produces about 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

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.

Higgsfield showed Claude Opus 5.5 reconstructing an athlete's long jump as a 4D visualization that makes time a visible dimension.