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Anthropic opened applications for the Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP), letting life science professionals use its models—including Mythos for the first time—with new safeguards designed for biology work. The program launches in beta for academic labs, startups, pharma companies, and other teams, with plans to expand access to individual Pro and Max plans over time.

Anthropic reports Claude optimized inference for more than 30 open-source biomolecular models, making them about 4x faster on average, in part by writing custom GPU software. The company is open-sourcing the optimization code and partnering with Adaptyv Bio to experimentally validate 5,000+ protein designs, with up to $1M in Claude credits plus compute and DNA from partners.

Anthropic said Claude optimized inference for more than 30 open-source biomolecular models, making them about 4x faster on average, partly by writing custom GPU software. The company is open-sourcing the code and partnering with Adaptyv Bio on a protein-design competition that will experimentally validate over 5,000 designs, with up to $1 million in Claude credits.

Anthropic published its most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers attempts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons, and says every operation in the report was disrupted and used to strengthen safeguards.

On September 1, xAI said LatchBio's independent BioSecBench-Refusal analysis found Grok 4.6 the only tested system scoring above 50% on both refusing disguised hazardous biology requests and completing routine biological work. Across harnesses, the trial-weighted harmonic mean averaged about 62.1% (roughly 59.2% red-team refusal and 64.8% routine completion). On BioSecBench-Surveillance it averaged about 53.5%, behind Opus 5 and ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol. LatchBio's blog says refusals are largely model-reasoning driven rather than API filters, without clear degradation on other biology benchmarks.