Claude Agents Discover New Phage Enzyme System ART
Anthropic says Claude agents combed public DNA databases and found ART, a new phage enzyme system resembling CRISPR, after 21 hours of searching.
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Anthropic's hardware standard cuts device setup to 8 hours
Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents control lab and manufacturing hardware directly, cutting device onboarding from weeks to hours.
Aureka raises $100M for biology models
Aureka Biotechnologies raised a $100 million Series B to train biological foundation models and connect AI agents with wet-lab feedback.
OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind for life sciences
OpenAI’s life-science model adds agentic coding, research plugins and NGS analysis tools, while cutting token use by 31% on long quantitative biology tasks.
Waypoint Bio raises $20M for AI-validated cell therapies
Waypoint Bio is using spatial biology and AI to validate in vivo CAR-T candidates for solid tumors before costly clinical trials.
OpenAI gives away biotech model to governments for free
OpenAI is offering its GPT-Rosalind life sciences model at no cost to governments and trusted developers to bolster biodefense.
AWS brings AI agents into the lab to accelerate drug discovery
Amazon launched Amazon Bio Discovery at its AWS Life Sciences Symposium in mid-April. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used the platform to design nearly 300,000 nanobody candidates against a pediatric cancer target in weeks and sent the top 100,000 to wet labs for synthesis and testing.