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AI Accelerates Scientific Manuscript Production
The saga tracks the rapid evolution of AI tools in scientific research, moving from the release of an open-source harness to a physicist using Claude to mass-produce manuscripts. It currently stands at a point where AI is being used to generate a high volume of academic work across diverse fields.
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Harvard physicist uses Claude to publish 36 manuscripts in 18 fields in three months
Harvard physics professor Matthew Schwartz used Claude to produce 36 research manuscripts across 18 fields—including ecology, genetics, and economics—in just three months. He selected projects from…
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Matthew Schwartz releases BootLoops 1.0, an open-source LLM harness for scientific calculations
Matthew Schwartz, a Harvard physicist and visiting researcher at Anthropic, released BootLoops 1.0 on October 1, 2026, an open-source toolkit built with Claude Fable 5 for exact calculations in…
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AnthropicGoogle CloudGoogle DeepMindOpenAINational Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Claude Fable 5Claude Opus 4.5ClaudeGeminiChatGPTMatthew D. SchwartzRampal Etienne