{
  "id": 7817208,
  "title": "Danish pharma giant Novo to use Anthropic’s Claude to advance AI drug discovery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/danish-pharma-giant-novo-to-use-anthropics-claude-to-advance-ai-drug",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-16T15:26:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Euronews",
    "slug": "euronews",
    "url": "https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/09/16/danish-pharma-giant-novo-to-use-anthropics-claude-to-advance-ai-drug-discovery"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, formerly Novo, has teamed up with Anthropic, an AI company, to expedite the creation of new medicines through artificial intelligence. Mike Doustdar, Novo's president and CEO, unveiled the collaboration, stating it would \"supercharge our R&D organization\" and aid their goal of delivering groundbreaking health solutions to those with chronic diseases. Through Anthropic's models and Claude Science, Novo aims to enhance scientific reasoning in their Research and Development (R&D) processes, potentially revolutionizing the understanding of human biology and drug mechanisms. According to Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, AI's growing capability could condense a century of medical progress into a decade. By granting leading researchers access to dependable, powerful, and secure frontier models, AI might shorten research timelines, improve results, and discover medicines with a significant impact on human life. Novo's foray into AI-driven drug discovery follows their partnership with OpenAI's science GPT-Rosalind, which commenced in April. The company utilized this advanced AI to analyze intricate data sets, identify potential drugs, and shorten the period between research and patient access. In 2024, Novo Nordisk Foundation joined forces with Nvidia and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) to establish the Danish Centre for AI Innovation. This center houses Gefion, Denmark's inaugural AI-ready supercomputer. Anthropic has also ventured into life sciences, partnering with Bristol Myers Squibb in May 2026 to deploy Claude across their research, clinical development, manufacturing, commercial, and corporate operations.",
  "summary": "The deal underscores a broader push by drugmakers to integrate AI across research and development to boost new drug discovery.",
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        "title": "Novo signs Anthropic deal to test Claude Science in R&D",
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        "title": "Anthropic merges its Claude chat and agentic Cowork products into a single AI assistant as part of a push to build an AI superapp",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/anthropic-merges-its-claude-chat-and-agentic-cowork-products-into-a",
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        "title": "Goodbye, Claude Cowork: Anthropic merges its two Claudes into one",
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        "published": "2026-09-16T16:30:44.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Anthropic to fold Claude AI features into one interface, launches document tools",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/anthropic-to-fold-claude-ai-features-into-one-interface-launches",
        "published": "2026-09-16T16:42:27.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "9to5Mac",
        "title": "Anthropic merging Claude Cowork with chat",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/anthropic-merging-claude-cowork-with-chat",
        "published": "2026-09-16T16:47:54.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Anthropic to fold Claude AI features into one interface, launches document tools",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/anthropic-to-fold-claude-ai-features-into-one-interface-launches-7841050",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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