A Discovery Worth Understanding Carefully

Last week, Anthropic announced that Claude had found a previously unknown enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, the viruses that infect bacteria. The Claude enzyme discovery drew fast headlines. Many of them ran ahead of the facts. Some called it the next CRISPR. Anthropic itself was far more careful.

This article explains the Claude enzyme discovery in plain steps. It covers how the work was done, what was found, and what still needs to be proven.