The round's core claim is that the AI drug discovery field has not stalled because its models are bad. It has stalled because the data those models train on is finite, biased toward commercially attractive disease targets, and increasingly exhausted.
Copyright © 2026 Thesis House Ltd. Wonkhe is published by Thesis House Ltd, registered in England and Wales (no. 08784934), 31–35 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TE. Vivienne Stern sets out what 25 years of data tells the sector about specialisation in UK research The government has backed…
A battery material can look perfect in the lab and still fail in a real battery. That is the puzzle facing researchers working on solid electrolytes, the materials seen as key to safer, longer-lasting batteries. For years, the race has…
Aviation Week Circularity Fuels Raises $7M To Scale Biogas-To-Jet-Fuel Process Circularity has produced jet fuel from cow manure at a 5,000-head California dairy farm. Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with…
Co-founders Ben Hunt and Philip Klein at the Lab Venture Challenge. Ptarmigan Clockworks, a startup formed by physics graduate student Ben Hunt, received one of the top prizes at the Lab Venture Challenge held on Oct. 22. Hunt, along with his…
Thinking Machines Lab introduced Inkling 2 Small on November 5, 2026, making its second-generation model available through Tinker with closed weights. The sparse Mixture-of-Experts system has 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters, targeting long-horizon autonomous work alongside coding, vision and knowledge tasks.
Decisions Lab plans to expand into consumer research and product design. “Companies often rely on sales attempts to learn about their customers, which is a slow, iterative process,” founder and Chief Technology Officer Devansh Gandhi told Hong Kong Business. Founded…
GenomeWeb Precision BioSciences Aiming to Raise $125M for Gene Therapies
Startups built around AI have fewer employees than other startups. A June 2026 study by researchers Hyunjin Kim and Rembrand Koning puts a number on it: "AI-native firms are 25% smaller." AI-native simply means a company built around AI from day one.
Open Research Europe (ORE), the open access publishing platform launched by the European Commission in 2021, is expanding beyond EU-funded research to welcome work by affiliated researchers across 11 European countries. Eligible researchers will be able to publish without fees, with their…
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