Anthropic announced that its Claude model autonomously identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA, which the company calls array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART). The system’s repeat-sequence structure resembles a CRISPR array, though Anthropic says it has not yet determined what ART actually does. The 21.5-hour autonomous research campaign screened over 200,000 reverse transcriptases and is the first public result from Anthropic’s newly formed life sciences research group.
