Anthropic’s 950-agent lab found a pattern, not yet a discovery
Anthropic says 950 Claude agents found an uncatalogued pattern around a known enzyme in 21 hours, but biologists dispute calling that a scientific discovery. The agents searched millions of DNA sequences and flagged a repeating pattern; human scientists still need to determine what the related system does and whether it matters. That distinction matters because AI companies’ breakthrough claims can make real scientific progress harder to recognize.