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Anthropic Announces Claude Science and Plans to Enter Drug Development

At an event for pharmaceutical and biotech leaders, Anthropic unveiled Claude Science. This product is meant to support scientific research much as Claude Code supports software engineering and is expected to launch a drug-discovery program focused on "neglected" diseases that traditional biopharma companies overlook, signaling AI's steady march into yet another industry.

Links:

• https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/anthropic-launches-ai-drug-discovery-program-claude-science.html

• https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/30/1139987/claude-science-is-anthropics-newest-flagship-product/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtMsa_1yNk