The first 'pure momentum' week: zero new companies were added, so every job movement is at employers already in the tracker — revealing real biopharma hiring churn underneath a roughly steady headline number.
AI-first drug discovery is now a real coverage cluster: 8 of the 19 companies added to Company Canary this week are AI-bio platforms, including the Altman-adjacent longevity trio of Altos Labs, Retro Biosciences, and NewLimit.
A weekly look at hiring activity across the biotech and biopharma companies tracked in Company Canary — this week: 2,743 active jobs, 9 new companies added, and a notable CMC scale-up signal from Moderna.