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Anthropic opened a biology VIP lane so verified labs can ask Claude the questions the rest of us still get scolded for

On 2026-09-17 Anthropic launched a Life Sciences Verification Program that loosens biology-related safeguards for approved teams on Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet, plus a same-day biomolecular-model speed-up brag. Useful if you are a real lab. Everyone else still gets the polite refusal and a...

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