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Anthropic tests Claude Duet, an AI assistant that comes to you with tasks itself
With Claude Duet, the AI assistant does not wait until you ask: it sends a summary in the morning, keeps an eye on your apps and keeps working when your laptop is off. You approve important steps yourself first. The test version has been available to paying users in the US since 21 October.
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Claude designs proteins against scorpion venom in 64 hours: 17 bind to their target in the lab
A research version of Claude designed over 318,000 small proteins against five scorpion toxins in 64 hours. Two labs made 211 of them, and 17 bound firmly to their toxin. It is not yet an antidote, but it is a first step.
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Physicist lets AI swap calculation methods between fields: 36 papers in three months
Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz had the AI model Claude apply calculation tricks from one field in another. With 19 colleagues, that produced 36 scientific papers in three months, from sunspots with a life expectancy to a rainforest that changes faster than expected.
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Does Claude learn by playing on a desert island?
MIT researchers let the AI assistant Claude loose on a virtual island for thirty hours without any task. It invented its own games, made drawings with blocks and did small experiments. With that experience, it later did better on most new tasks than a version of Claude without that play experience.
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AI agents find two candidate magnets for a new kind of computer memory
More than ninety Claude Opus 5.5 agents at Vals AI spent three days calculating magnets for future computer memory. They arrived at two candidates, including a substance from 1999. It remains calculations only: nobody has measured the predicted properties yet.