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Morning Edition · Monday, September 7, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Opens a Research Preview of a Standard for AI Agents to Operate Laboratory and Factory Hardware
Early testers report an agent raising laser stabilization on QuEra's quantum computers from 58% to 99.3% and reducing a Janelia imaging experiment from several weeks to a single day.
Anthropic has opened the first phase of a research preview for the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification that lets AI agents discover and operate physical instruments. The problem it targets is integration cost. Connecting a…
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