Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?

New York Times Sunday 27 September 2026, 20:57 UTC By Carl Zimmer 1 min read

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An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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