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Fewer bets, bigger checks: the seed drought hiding inside a $17 billion AI week

Fewer bets, bigger checks: the seed drought hiding inside a $17 billion AI week

Seed rounds fell 28% while late-stage bets jumped 133%. Inside a $17B week: SAP bought tabular AI, Moonshot raised $2B for open-source, and quantum hardware had its biggest funding week in years.

2 days ago
Demis Hassabis in 2026: How DeepMind Is Turning AlphaFold Into a Drug Discovery Engine

Demis Hassabis in 2026: How DeepMind Is Turning AlphaFold Into a Drug Discovery Engine

Demis Hassabis has spent 2026 arguing that AlphaFold is the first rung in an AI-powered scientific revolution. Here is how his thesis maps to Isomorphic Labs' drug pipeline, DeepMind's research agenda, and his view that the generative AI boom may paradoxically slow deeper progress.

2 days ago