AI’s quest for morality
The industry is courting theologians and philosophers. But it is asking them the wrong questions
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Anthropic’s Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Today, Anthropic rolled out Opus 5, the newest update for the model that has recently become a popular choice for coding and other software development tasks, among other things. While this is a noteworthy bump for Opus, it doesn’t seem to be an Opus 4.5-level breakthrough in agentic coding performance. Read full article Comments
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Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
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
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US tech groups cut 140,000 jobs despite AI spending boom
Investment spree is reshaping Silicon Valley while wider US jobs market holds steady
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
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
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
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
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Nvidia and Palantir urge US not to ban ‘open’ AI models after China scare
US tech groups and investors respond to calls for restrictions on advanced Chinese technology
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Submit your questions: Has the market lost its mind over AI?
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)
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Yang Zhilin, the rock star founder behind China’s Moonshot AI
Known as ‘Yang the genius’ by classmates, his new K3 model has closed the gap with leading US rivals
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AI firms want more data centers; Trump’s EPA may give neighbors less say
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
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