Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. "The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live," says one expert. Tech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one.

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The conversation in the AI industry has largely been focused on slowing down AI development or "pacing the frontier," but that apparently won't stop Anthropic and OpenAI from releasing new models. Both companies are iterating on their previous releases, Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, with new models that offer similar levels of performance but at lower costs. In the case of Claude, Anthropic says its new Opus 5.5 model is better at handling complex work, "finding and fixing inefficiencies in software" and financial analysis and business work -- all pitches laser-targeted at Anthropic's enterprise customers. Anthropic's benchmarks claim Opus 5.5 also scored better at agentic coding than GPT-6 Astra on both Terminal-Bench 4.0 and FrontierCode v1.1 (Main), which could make it more appealing for developers. Improvements extend outside of the tasks the model can handle and to how it works: Anthropic claims Opus 5.5 produces writing that's easier to understand, and that it "attempted to circumvent boundaries around 85 percent less often" than past models, suggesting it'll disobey directions less often.

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For example, in a new blog detailing measurement standards it thinks could help AI companies communicate the pace of AI development, Anthropic shared that its AI chatbot Claude "leads" 26 percent of its AI R&D work. Now by "leads," the company means that the AI "can complete most of [a] task end-to-end from a high-level prompt, while [a] human supervises," but it's still a surprising metric. It also claims that AI now does at least "large chunks of work under close human direction" on more than 90 percent of its research, which includes the 26 percent Claude leads. That suggests Claude is touching the majority of the work Anthropic employees do, even if the company says the chatbot is "not operating fully autonomously for any measured subset of AI R&D work." Anthropic came up with these stats through the first of its three proposed measurements, which is focused on "AI-led AI R&D."

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Radhika Rajkumar is a senior editor at ZDNET based in New York City. Anthropic is rolling Claude Cowork back into regular Claude. If you prefer regular chat, your experience shouldn't change. Anthropic also launched Claude Docs. If you've gotten attached to the original, more limited Claude chat interface, Anthropic has some bad news: the company is rolling Claude Cowork and chat into a single, all-powerful Claude known as Claude.

Anthropic has launched Claude Docs, a new feature that lets the AI assistant/chatbot create documents for you. As part of the company's efforts to make it easier to access Claude's many capabilities -- more on this later -- you'll be able to ask it to make a document for you right within your conversation. You can ask Claude to create a document, such as a one-page sheet with pertinent information, and it will post the result inside your chat. The document starts private, but you can choose to share it with colleagues if you're collaborating with them. While you can edit the document within Claude, you can also export and open it in Google Docs or Microsoft Word if you want. The company is also adding the ability to create slides and presentations within conversations.

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