Anthropic's Claude Discovers Novel CRISPR-Like Enzyme System in Life Sciences Breakthrough
Anthropic launches dedicated life sciences lab where Claude discovers potential new programmable nuclease class through end-to-end AI-driven research.
Anthropic Launches Life Sciences Research Division
Anthropric has formed a dedicated life sciences research group and laboratory to conduct fundamental biology research using Claude end-to-end. In a significant early result, Claude discovered a novel enzyme system containing CRISPR-like repeats, described as a potential new class of programmable nucleases.
Multi-Agent Market Experiments Show Alignment Progress
Anthropric conducted a controlled multi-agent market experiment called ‘Project Swap’, where Claude-powered agents negotiated book trades on behalf of human participants across six offices. The agents achieved 61% pairwise ranking alignment with their human principals, derived from a five-minute preference interview.
In the experiment, model choice dominated instruction design in determining negotiation outcomes. Project Swap followed an earlier experiment called ‘Project Deal’, forming a sequential research series.
Anthropic Streamlines Claude Code with Major Prompt Reduction
Anthropric removed more than 80% of Claude Code’s system prompt for its Opus 5 and Fable 5 models with no measurable loss on coding evaluations, pointing to potential efficiency gains in model deployment.
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