Anthropic reported that its wet biology lab in the Bay Area found a new enzyme system it says behaves like CRISPR, including cutting, copying, and pasting DNA operations. The team says Claude produced the result after 21 hours of work using about 950 agents and 210 million tokens. Anthropic says the research community will need to validate the discovery, and it is still conducting lab experiments with human scientists rather than fully automating the lab.
Basecamp Research announced it raised $140 million in a Series C round led by S32, with investors including NATO, Nvidia, and a $100 million Anthology Fund venture. The company’s EDEN foundation model was trained on its Trillion Gene Atlas dataset containing information on more than 100 billion genes. It plans to use the funding to accelerate its AI-designed drug development and expand partnerships for bringing those therapies to market.
Enveda raised a $311 million Series E as a biotech startup using AI to find nature-derived drug candidates for clinical trials.
The round valued the company at $2 billion, doubling its valuation from 12 months earlier.
As a result, Enveda can advance multiple AI-discovered therapies in patients, including a severe skin-condition treatment and a weight-maintenance drug after stopping GLP-1s.
Anthropic established a life sciences research group using Claude and reports that Claude autonomously discovered an enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeat DNA arrays while mining DNA databases. The discovery came after 21 hours of searching using roughly 950 agents over 210 million tokens. Anthropic says this led to identification of a previously uncharacterized enzyme system it calls ART and ongoing experiments to determine its function.
Anthropic’s wet lab, using Claude, says it autonomously discovered an enzyme system with similarities to Crispr-related gene-editing machinery. Anthropic reports nearly 950 Claude agents processed 210 million tokens over 21 hours before detecting an unusual repeating pattern. Anthropic presents this as the first wet-lab result and an early validation of Claude’s usefulness for science as it prepares to go public.
Basecamp Research raised a $140m Series C to build next-generation biological foundation models with backing from Anthropic and Nvidia. The round totals $140m and was led by S32. It will fund development of the models and use them to move medicines designed through the platform toward clinical use.
Basecamp Research raised a $140m Series C to fund its AI-driven drug discovery and cell therapy work, with Nvidia and Anthropic among the investors. The round is $140 million, and the company plans to use it to train a new generation of its AI models. As a result, Basecamp will advance its pipeline of AI-designed therapeutics toward clinical development.
4YFN opened entries for the 4YFN27 Awards to let digital startups apply for investor review and pitching at the event in Barcelona. The overall winner will receive a €20,000 cash prize, with applications due by 26 October 2026 at 17:00 CET. The program adds a Top 20 shortlist that gets €1,500 and an exhibition pod, followed by category finalists pitching on stage for the winner selection.
Climate-focused venture capital has shifted back into focus as AI increases demand for energy for data centers while climate-tech fundraising has weakened. Fundraising for climate-specialist VCs in 2025 was down nearly 40% from 2024 even as energy and related startups drew much more capital. Investors say AI is pulling more deal activity toward climate-compatible energy and storage, and climate investors are increasingly co-investing alongside generalists on a larger share of caps tables.
MentalHealthBench was introduced as an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses in realistic mental health conversations. The article does not provide any numeric benchmark, date, or other concrete figure. This changes how developers can measure and compare AI response quality for mental health dialogue, though the piece itself contains only a brief description.
Aks.ai launched as a personal mental-health companion that offers private, judgment-free guided reflection to help users process feelings and reflect on daily life. The page also notes 9 followers. As a result, it becomes available as an Android health app positioned as an AI companion for daily listening and self-understanding.
mika, a Berlin-based vertical AI startup, raised a €6M seed round to build an AI-native financial operating system for German SMEs’ bookkeeping and tax filing workflows. The funding includes participation from Smedvig Ventures and Care4 AG, with the round valuing the effort at €6 million. The company will expand usage and use the capital to support growth and further develop its platform as more SMEs adopt it.
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