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Claude Autonomously Designs Proteins, Nearly Half Bind in Lab Tests

No.16 · Thursday, September 3, 2026 · Today in AI

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1. 01Claude Autonomously Designs Proteins, Nearly Half Bind in Lab TestsAnthropic's Claude designed proteins on its own in 24 hours, given only a target — and when two independent labs tested them, nearly half actually bound
2. 02Anthropic adds graduate and PhD tracks to Campus Ambassadors programAnthropic opens three tracks — undergraduate, graduate, and PhD — each offering a $3,600 grant, with applications closing September 12
3. 03Open-Weight AI Becomes Cheapest Shield and Easiest Spear in Same MonthA single round of fine-tuning was enough to strip the safety guardrails off 21 open-weight models.
4. 04ChatGPT links up with Epic EHR and nine medical data sourcesOpenAI has added hospital electronic health record integration and a plugin connecting nine official medical databases to ChatGPT for Healthcare.
5. 05Anthropic launches Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1Same model, split by safeguard level — cheaper cache reads cut costs, and a new EFS system changes how data gets stored
6. 06Google unveils Gemini 3.8 Flash, tuned for coding and agentic workThe new model builds on Gemini 3.7 Flash, ships across six deployment paths, and supports up to 1 million tokens of context
7. 07Claude Fable 5.1 traces the root cause of a bug no one could reproduceIt scans vehicle data, support tickets, and multiple codebases at once to surface likely causes, while developers keep final sign-off
8. 08World Labs' Atlas Generates and Reconstructs 3D Worlds From a Few PhotosFei-Fei Li's World Labs has rolled generation, reconstruction, and robot simulation into a single model called Atlas