Anthropic’s AI biolab finds ‘CRISPR-like’ DNA in viruses. What’s next?

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Nature / Science / Nature Biotechnology at 25 Sept, 00:00 UTC

Nature, Published online: 25 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03039-6 The detection effort enlisted roughly 950 AI agents that spent more than 21 hours combing through DNA sequence databases.

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• T1Anthropic’s AI biolab finds ‘CRISPR-like’ DNA in viruses. What’s next?Nature / Science / Nature Biotechnology25 Sept, 00:00