The latest BPSI shows signs of a more durable phase in the biopharma recovery, with improvements across every metric. After four years of hunkering down, the mood in biopharma turned sharply more optimistic heading into 2026. The Biopharma Sentiment Index (BPSI) climbed to 90 in Q1, up from 78 the prior quarter — a broad-based […]
Cellares raises $257M to fund global expansion as it eyes 2027 IPO
Clinical-stage cell therapy manufacturer Cellares has raised $257 million in a Series D round as it gears up commercially and prepares to go public. Cellares aims to launch its commercial cell therapy manufacturing services in …
Lilly partners with recombinase-based gene editing startup Seamless Therapeutics
Seamless Therapeutics, a startup developing a new form of gene editing based on enzymes called recombinases, has struck a partnership with Eli Lilly that could be worth more than $1.12 billion, the company announced Wednesday …
Boehringer Ingelheim takes rare kidney disease drug to Phase 3 despite puzzling mid-stage data
Boehringer Ingelheim’s experimental pill has shown signs of improving kidney function in patients with a rare renal condition in a mid-stage trial. But the data are somewhat confusing, with the lowest dose working better than …
CMS’s Medicare price negotiations start round three
The US federal government has named the next 15 big-selling medicines that will be subject to Medicare pricing negotiations.
Ro serves up Super Bowl GLP-1 campaign starring Serena Williams
Ro is bringing Serena Williams to the Super Bowl. Months after partnering with Williams, Ro has secured airtime at Super Bowl LX to showcase how the 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion’s life changed after taking GLP-1 drugs sourced from the telehealth company.
UK biotech sees “strong finish” to 2025 financing
2025 was a challenging year for the UK biotech sector, but it ended the year with signs of “renewed confidence,” says the BIA industry body.
Introducing the Sunday Times Tech 100: Life sciences part 3
In our third and final report on the 2026 Sunday Times Tech 100, we focus on the remaining crop of life sciences companies in the hardware category.
Who’s in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage
arXiv:2601.19062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded in society, there has been limited empirical study of how their usage affects human empowerment. We present the first large-scale empirical analysis of disempowerment patterns in real-world AI assistant interactions, analyzing 1.5 million consumer Claude.ai conversations using a privacy-preserving approach. We focus on […]
AgenticSCR: An Autonomous Agentic Secure Code Review for Immature Vulnerabilities Detection
arXiv:2601.19138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Secure code review is critical at the pre-commit stage, where vulnerabilities must be caught early under tight latency and limited-context constraints. Existing SAST-based checks are noisy and often miss immature, context-dependent vulnerabilities, while standalone Large Language Models (LLMs) are constrained by context windows and lack explicit tool use. Agentic AI, […]
GTA: Generative Traffic Agents for Simulating Realistic Mobility Behavior
arXiv:2601.16778v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: People’s transportation choices reflect complex trade-offs shaped by personal preferences, social norms, and technology acceptance. Predicting such behavior at scale is a critical challenge with major implications for urban planning and sustainable transport. Traditional methods use handcrafted assumptions and costly data collection, making them impractical for early-stage evaluations of new […]
Hyperbolic Additive Margin Softmax with Hierarchical Information for Speaker Verification
arXiv:2601.19709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speaker embedding learning based on Euclidean space has achieved significant progress, but it is still insufficient in modeling hierarchical information within speaker features. Hyperbolic space, with its negative curvature geometric properties, can efficiently represent hierarchical information within a finite volume, making it more suitable for the feature distribution of speaker […]