Anthropic said its AI agents independently found new enzymes it called ARTs by mining biological databases, but computational biologist Mario Rodríguez Mestre says his team had studied the same 'jumbotron' systems for four years and analysed the underlying data over a year before Anthropic's announcement. Mestre notes he had shared his research with Claude for years, making it impossible to verify the AI reasoned to the result independently rather than drawing on his prior work.
