Morning Edition · Friday, July 3, 2026
Anthropic's Claude Science bets that scientific adoption is a workflow problem, not a model problem
The workbench connects a coordinating agent to more than 60 domain skills and adds a reviewer agent that checks citations and calculations.
Anthropic launched Claude Science on June 30, a workbench that gathers a researcher's tools into a single workspace built around a coordinating agent with access to more than 60 curated skills and connectors pre-configured for genomics, sin…
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