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20:47

2026-10-01

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artificial-intelligence

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

A researcher used Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model to search the GLOBALISE archive of Dutch East India Company records and surfaced what appears to be a previously unnoticed 1615 Dutch ship's log entry desc…

19:14

2026-09-24

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artificial-intelligence

AI labs need to start funding historical research

A historical researcher reports that pairing historians with frontier AI models such as GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5.5 can solve constrained historical problems, including breaking a 1941 German Enigma mess…