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Anthropic says Claude discovered a CRISPR-like enzyme system. Its own post says the function is not yet known, ten reruns missed the array, and a researcher says it matches his unpublished work.
Anthropic, life sciences group announcement (23 Sep 2026), and Dario Amodei on X ·
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Anthropic said Claude discovered a novel enzyme system with properties reminiscent of CRISPR, with only high-level direction from its scientists. Its CEO called it a Claude-led discovery of a molecular machine that could represent a new gene editing mechanism.
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Bezos says AI will let some people work three days a week. The coverage gives no timeline, and Amazon has cut about 30,000 corporate roles since late last year.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder, Fox News interview aired 7 Oct 2026, as reported by Fortune ·
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In a Fox News interview aired 7 October, Bezos said AI-driven productivity means some people will decide they can support their family working three days a week, and that it will be difficult to hire people.
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he did not provide a timeline for the predicted changes or explain how productivity gains would translate into higher household incomes or shorter working hours
in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company
METR's chart says AI task length doubles every seven months. A new preprint finds the same tenfold jump is not the same difficulty everywhere, and METR's own note warns the error bars are wide.
METR, time-horizon paper and blog post (19 Mar 2025); re-analysed in an arXiv preprint (8 Oct 2026) ·
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METR's 2025 post said the length of tasks AI agents can complete has been exponentially increasing, with a doubling time of around 7 months.
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many people to some extent both overstate the precision of our time horizon measurements and draw conclusions I don't think the evidence fully supports
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