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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

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mullingitover · 1790189260 · focus · HN ↗
This is great, but I can't help but wonder if we're going to have another post next week with a lab complaining that they were about to publish this same finding, and they had Claude proofread their paper, and whoops how'd that get into Anthropic's training data?
1. mullingitover · 1790566151 · focus · HN ↗
  Update, I was wrong. Off by three days[1].
  [1] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/science/anthropic-biology-enzyme-mestre.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/science/anthropic-biology...

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