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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology pr…

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  1. 2026-09-28 17:03 · MIT Technology Review AI
    When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?

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