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AI agents can now make real biology finds from one broad prompt

Anthropic's life sciences lab gave Claude only a high-level prompt, and it found a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeated DNA sequences in a jumbo phage. CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called the result genuinely intriguing.

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  AI agents can now make real biology finds from one broad prompt

  Anthropic's life sciences lab gave Claude only a high-level prompt, and it found a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeated DNA sequences in a jumbo phage. CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called the result genuinely intriguing.

  Anthropic editorial sitemap→
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  NVIDIA's SWE-Serve: a third of test-passing agent patches break live

  NVIDIA's SWE-Serve benchmark gives coding agents 53 real SGLang inference-engineering tasks. Patches that pass conventional tests fail live-serving checks about a third of the time, and pass@1 across 11 models ranges from 35% to 75.5%.

  Elizabeth Goodman→
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  Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS models with prompt-built voices

  Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite text-to-speech models that build custom voices from prompts and take line-by-line direction on emotion and pacing, across AI Studio, the Gemini API and Vercel's AI Gateway.

  Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello→Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello→Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground→Zachary Chen→
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  Meta adds voice and video to Muse and new glasses at Connect

  At Meta Connect 2026, Muse moved to voice and real-time video and passed ChatGPT in the App Store. Meta also showed new AI glasses and explained Private Processing, which runs heavier models in attested cloud VMs.

  [AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm→Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses→
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  Claude Code skips AGENTS.md when telemetry is disabled, tests show

  New testing shows Claude Code 2.1.277 and later load AGENTS.md only behind a remote feature flag, so turning off telemetry silently skips the file. A one-line CLAUDE.md containing @AGENTS.md restores it.

  pszypowicz→
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  GPT-6 Astra finishes DrivingBench's real-car course; rivals stall

  DrivingBench gave frontier models control of a real Toyota Corolla's steering, throttle and brakes on a cone course. GPT-6 Astra reached 100% progress while Claude Fable 5.1 and Grok 4.6 stalled well short.

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  Kimi K3's license makes it open-weight, not open-source, OpenRouter says

  OpenRouter's analysis finds Moonshot's Kimi K3 license lacks OSI approval and adds a Model-as-a-Service revenue gate and a UI attribution requirement above certain scale, despite broad use and resale rights.

  OpenRouter editorial sitemap→