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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 6, 2026Published at 2:32 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Previews a Hardware Standard Letting AI Agents Drive Lab and Factory Equipment
Early testers report a laser stabilization improvement from 58% to 99.3% on QuEra's quantum computers and an imaging experiment compressed from weeks to a day at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus.
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a specification that lets AI agents discover and operate physical instruments such as microscopes, liquid handlers and robotic arms. The first phase is limited to a small g…
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