Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?

September 28, 2026 · 5:03 pm 2 sources

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• Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
  The New York Times · September 28, 2026 18:15
  An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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• When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
  MIT Technology Review · September 28, 2026 17:03
  This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology…