ScienceAbout 950 Claude agents searched a DNA database for 21 hours and found an unknown system with CRISPR-like repeatsAnthropic presented its own biology lab and showed its first result: a system built around a reverse transcriptase in phages, next to an array of evenly spaced DNA repeats. What it does is not yet known. The preprint is out.ScienceClaude sped up more than 30 biology models by about 4 times on average in under four weeks and opened the codeAn internal Anthropic research model, supervised by two people with no background in optimisation, optimised the open models for protein structure and design. Plus a new mode that predicts systems over 10,000 tokens on a single server.ScienceOpenAI says an internal model solved the Navier-Stokes problem. The page cites no independent verificationOn 8 September OpenAI published a proof, formalised in Lean, that the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow can develop a singularity in finite time. In the company's words this resolves one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems of the Clay Institute. The page cites no check by independent mathematicians or by the institute itself, so for now this is OpenAI's claim.ScienceClaude wrote the first complete machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 daysOn 4 September Anthropic published a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem checked end to end in Lean. Claude worked largely on its own for 11 days, wrote 13 million lines and proved 29,500 intermediate theorems used in the final result. The community expected the formalisation to take years.ScienceAnthropic previewed a standard that lets an AI agent run a microscope, a liquid-handling robot and a robotic armOn 27 August Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard - a shared driver through which an agent discovers the instruments in a lab and gives them commands. Integration that, by the company's account, takes weeks drops to hours. The open-source release comes later, after safety evaluations.ScienceAnthropic opens 10,000 free and discounted seats for scientists, but biologists stay on OpusOn 27 August Anthropic announced a dedicated plan for scientists: the standard seat is free for a year, and the premium seat with five times the usage limit costs $15 a month. Principal investigators at academic and nonprofit institutions qualify. For biology and chemistry the rules do not change.ScienceClaude designed proteins against 15 targets and hit 14Anthropic published results from a lab, not a simulation. External evaluators produced and tested the model's designs. The share that worked is between 22 and 35 percent, against a usual 10 to 15.ScienceDeepMind put sign language translation into the phone keyboardThe model watches body points, not the video, and turns American Sign Language into text on the device itself. The frame is discarded immediately.
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