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Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 1, 2026Published at 2:29 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of a Standard for Agents to Drive Lab and Factory Machines
Early users include Genentech, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Research Campus and QuEra, where Anthropic says agent control raised laser stabilization from 58% to 99.3%.
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification that lets AI agents operate physical instruments, to a first group of scientific laboratories and advanced manufacturers. The company frames it as…
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