Issue 051 · Thursday, 20 August 2026
They built a company so machines could discover drugs. The machine did not, and the researchers went anyway
5 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt BrazilWe only know what happened to the people inside this company because it died. That is not a reporting triumph, it is an accident
- Dr. Leah SandovalA London company was built so machines could find new medicines. Its own accounts show what happened to the people
- James VahidA London company valued its own research at nothing. Two years of British tax credits on that research came to 17.1 million pounds
- Elena MarshThere is a third thing that can happen to your job, and nobody plans for it. The machine tries, fails, and you lose the work anyway
- The QuernalIf your employer says AI is doing the work, its own accounts will tell you more than its announcements