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IISc researchers had to grow a copper CO2-hydrogenation model from 152 reactions to 9,389 before it predicted methanol as the main product. The smaller version picked formic acid, a caution for any mechanistic model built on a hand-picked shortlist of steps.
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NTU scientists built a compound that starves Mycobacterium abscessus of energy; paired with the drug clofazimine it cut the microbe a hundredfold in four days. Two other teams mapped the same bacterium's virus defenses and a related pathogen's toxin-firing weapon.
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Photon raised $4.5 million to help developers run AI agents inside iMessage and WhatsApp, citing over 40,000 developer sign-ups. Its open-source version still accounts for 98% of use, so the paying side of the bet is early.
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Spark led a $26M round on the premise that buried-asset records can be bought once instead of chased per project. The one outcome number on offer comes from a customer's own study of paving it could have skipped.
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The pitch is a software-style test loop for machines: model a customer's own hardware and sensors, calibrate against real runs, then try thousands of scenarios before booking rig time. Ring says the match held on scenarios it withheld.
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Greylock led a $32m Series A into a New York simulation platform whose strongest commercial evidence is Ring's chief product officer saying, on the record, that the simulations matched physical test results on scenarios withheld from calibration.
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