Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big
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Anthropic keeping Claude out of its own biology lab while hinting at “something big” is a live demonstration of internal capability throttling. Expect more dual-track roadmaps — one for what’s technically possible, another for what governance and risk teams will actually allow into production.
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