Morning Edition · Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Claude Science Turns the Model Into a Coordinating Agent for the Lab Bench
Anthropic ships a beta workbench that wires Claude into genomics, proteomics, and cheminformatics tooling with auditable outputs.
Anthropic introduced Claude Science on June 30, a desktop app that positions Claude as a generalist coordinating agent over the fragmented tooling of computational research. It ships in beta on macOS and Linux for paid tiers, with more than…
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