The Loop  ·  Issue N°040

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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#Ai In Biology

  1. · News

    The wet lab shipped on day four — Anthropic's Claude found a CRISPR-adjacent enzyme system three days after the biology group's coming-out, with a Feng Zhang endorsement and a set of reproducibility numbers the launch post did not lead with.

    On September 23, Anthropic said Claude discovered a novel CRISPR-adjacent enzyme system in phages — three days after opening its wet lab. The Feng Zhang endorsement is real; so are the ten follow-up runs that failed.

    Sep 24, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor