Anthropic Built a Wet Lab. The Bottleneck in AI Drug Discovery Was Never the Model.

In one week a frontier lab confirmed it runs physical experiments, Washington put money behind AI replacing animal tests, and a ByteDance spin-off raised $290 million. All three are bets on verification, and that changes how to judge an AI biology company.

Meta's $2 Billion Manus Deal Was Blocked. Manus Is Now Asking $4 Billion.

A failed exit is supposed to leave a startup damaged. Manus is in talks at double the price, with a different set of buyers. Here is what that says about where China-rooted AI companies can sell, and to whom.