Claude reportedly finds previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA

Cointelegraph reports that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Claude found a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA that could represent a new gene-editing mechanism. Anthropic describes the system as having CRISPR-like repeats. A user discussing the claim describes a 21-hour effort involving 950 AI agents and 210 million tokens, and says humans still had to validate the finding in the lab.