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Anyone who has used the Internet in recent years is probably used to encountering telltale signs of LLM prompting that lazy users sometimes forget to remove from their AI-generated pabulum. But a Canadian legislator took that idea to an embarrassing new level this week, reading an apparent LLM prompt instruction into the record during a […]
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech Read More »
Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady
US tech groups cut 140,000 jobs despite AI spending boom Read More »
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal
A couple of decades after the discovery of systems that could selectively target DNA, we’re starting to see the first therapies based on gene editing. One challenge these developments have faced is safety. While we can make them pretty specific to the gene we want edited, the human genome is very large, and even rare
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer Read More »
US tech groups and investors respond to calls for restrictions on advanced Chinese technology
Nvidia and Palantir urge US not to ban ‘open’ AI models after China scare Read More »
Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with Lex head John Foley and tech comment editor Elaine Moore on Thursday July 30 at 1pm (BST)
Submit your questions: Has the market lost its mind over AI? Read More »
Known as ‘Yang the genius’ by classmates, his new K3 model has closed the gap with leading US rivals
Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI Read More »
The Trump administration is quietly considering a rule change that could make it easier for polluters to build facilities—including certain gas plants and diesel generators that power data centers—with little to no notice to the public. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing on a proposed rule change that would hand the
AI firms want more data centers; Trump’s EPA may give neighbors less say Read More »
Consumers are being taken to court in droves for delinquent credit card and other bills. New legal protections and even A.I. could be a lifeline.
Debt Collection Suits Have Risen Sharply. There’s Help for Consumers Being Sued. Read More »
By Sumeet Vaidya Frontier labs and hyperscalers promise world-shifting innovation. And most deliver it. But, as we’re seeing with the Anthropic policy flip-flop and the evolving Hugging Face and OpenAI security incident, they operate without stability. That’s deeply concerning because technology organizations that build their entire AI operations and business on top of Anthropic, OpenAI
The Biggest AI Talent Challenge Is Resilience, Not Speed Read More »
