Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
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An AI lab running its own wet lab collapses the distance between model capability and real-world bio experimentation—governance, not just safety research, now has to live inside the same org chart as the tools. If you operate in bio or adjacent risk domains, assume leading labs will be direct R&D actors, not just model vendors, and update your dependency and oversight map accordingly.
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