A commentary republished by Huxiu argues that many of the AI industry's biggest "breakthroughs" happen in press releases rather than in the lab. It cites Anthropic's claim that 950 Claude agents worked for 21 hours and burned 210 million tokens to sift more than 200,000 reverse transcriptases for a previously undescribed enzyme system named ART — yet the paper is still a preprint, the system's function is unknown, and rerunning the same task found the key sequence only once in 10 attempts. The piece also lists Zhipu's talk of a path to recursive self-improvement, Dreame's pledge to build a "$100 trillion ecosystem," and UBTech's fastest-growing financial category being smart litter boxes and pool cleaners.

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