Anthropic Eyes Its Own Drugs

The Signal · 2026-07-04

The safety lab wants to make medicine. Anthropic unveiled Claude Science, a workbench pulling together scientific tools and datasets, and it aims to develop its own drugs, not just license to pharma. A frontier lab is now a would-be drugmaker.

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