Dep(@0xDepressionn):950 CLAUDE AGENTS RAN FOR 21 HOURS AND FOUND SOMETHING IN DNA THAT NO HUMAN HAD SEEN anthropic announced it yesterday one prompt. ~950 agents in parallel. 210M tokens they went through 200K+ enzymes, pulled out 3,500 candidate systems and narrowed it down to 20 one of them sat next to a long repeating DNA array. the same kind of signature that led humans to CRISPR anthropic's own scientists then checked it in a real lab. they named it ART nobody knows what it does yet. the preprint isnt peer reviewed. dario himself says its "precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear" and gene editing stocks still dumped the same day CRISPR Therapeutics -6%. Beam -6%. Editas -8%. Prime Medicine -12% the scariest part is dario's timeline, not the enzyme 2023: models struggle with high school math 2024: top high school competitions 2025: minor open problems late 2026: the top few open problems in all of mathematics his words: "We believe AI for biology is on a similar exponential trend" personally, the stock move is what got me. i've watched crypto dump on a whitepaper before anything shipped. this is the first time i've seen biotech do it because a model read some DNA the market isnt pricing what ART does. its pricing who found it

2026.09.24 20:27

950 CLAUDE AGENTS RAN FOR 21 HOURS AND FOUND SOMETHING IN DNA THAT NO HUMAN HAD SEEN anthropic announced it yesterday one prompt. ~950 agents in parallel. 210M tokens they went through 200K+ enzymes, pulled out 3,500 candidate systems and narrowed it down to 20 one of them sat next to a long repeating DNA array. the same kind of signature that led humans to CRISPR anthropic's own scientists then checked it in a real lab. they named it ART nobody knows what it does yet. the preprint isnt peer reviewed. dario himself says its "precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear" and gene editing stocks still dumped the same day CRISPR Therapeutics -6%. Beam -6%. Editas -8%. Prime Medicine -12% the scariest part is dario's timeline, not the enzyme 2023: models struggle with high school math 2024: top high school competitions 2025: minor open problems late 2026: the top few open problems in all of mathematics his words: "We believe AI for biology is on a similar exponential trend" personally, the stock move is what got me. i've watched crypto dump on a whitepaper before anything shipped. this is the first time i've seen biotech do it because a model read some DNA the market isnt pricing what ART does. its pricing who found it

Anthropic@AnthropicAI

2026.09.23 18:18

Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR. We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use. Read more: