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Anthropic's flagship product was built by twenty people

No.20 · Wednesday, September 9, 2026 · Today in AI

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01Anthropic's flagship product was built by twenty peopleThis is the story of Labs, the in-house experiment team led by Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann. Claude Code itself started as one person's project here.
02Gemini gives college students a free yearHere is what it takes to qualify for the Google AI Plus student offer, and what to watch for with automatic billing
03DeepMind scores all 9 billion possible human genome variantsAlphaGenome Atlas precomputes every single-base change in the genome as a 1-petabyte dataset, now open to researchers worldwide
04OpenAI to Deploy In-House Inference Chip Halapeno This YearCFO Sarah Friar disclosed performance figures for the in-house inference chip alongside a consumer-enterprise revenue flywheel
05OpenAI commits $5 million to research on AI's impact on teensIndependent studies on 13- to 17-year-olds can receive up to $1 million per project, with applications open until October 6
06Dell sets quarterly record with $60.9 billion in AI server ordersDell has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of enterprises shifting AI workloads from the cloud to their own on-premises servers.
07AI-designed drug shows '3 years younger' across six aging clocksInsilico Medicine gave patients its AI-designed pulmonary fibrosis drug rentosertib for 12 weeks, and their biological age dropped on all six aging clocks tested — by more than three years in some cases. The drug was made by AI, and its effects were measured by AI. So how much should we trust these numbers?
08UBS adds AI skills as a hiring requirement for entry-level bankersUBS will require AI proficiency starting with its 2027 graduate and internship hiring. Candidates won't be able to just say they've used AI — they'll need to explain what they fed into it and how it improved the outcome.
09NYU mathematician cracks fluid equation with AI help, then gets a call the day before publishingAn NYU mathematician says he used AI help to prove blow-up in the Euler equations, and has published a statement detailing a call with OpenAI just before he announced it. He wrote that OpenAI proposed dropping a co-author who works at Anthropic.
10Brokerages open accounts for AI agentsThis spring, eToro, Moomoo, and Robinhood each rolled out dedicated channels letting AI agents like Claude and Codex place orders directly. In an era where you can command a strategy in plain language without writing code, the question is how far you should hand over the keys to your account.
11Anthropic drops $6 billion Decart acquisitionAnthropic walked away from talks to buy real-time video AI company Decart after due diligence. The deal would have paid one and a half times the valuation Decart raised at just four months earlier, right as Anthropic heads toward an IPO.