NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database
NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database

The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million genomes with real medical records, and it arrives as the programme behind it faces deep budget cuts. The database comes from …

AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation
AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation

Higgsfield AI did not exist before March 2025. Fifteen months on, the video startup is in talks to raise money at a $5bn valuation, four times its worth at the start of the year. The company is seeking $300mn to $500mn, The Information first reported. …

“BioShocking” tricks AI browsers into leaking your passwords
“BioShocking” tricks AI browsers into leaking your passwords

Security researchers convinced six AI browsers they were playing a game. The browsers then handed over their users’ passwords and treated it as a win. The firm behind it, LayerX, calls the technique BioShocking, and says it worked on every agent it tri…

DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing
DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing

DeepSeek lit China’s AI price war by making tokens absurdly cheap. Now it is doing something no rival has dared: charging more when demand runs high. The Chinese startup has told API customers it will double the price of its V4 models during busy hours…

Healthcare’s AI Revolution Has Forgotten the Human Being
Healthcare’s AI Revolution Has Forgotten the Human Being

Artificial intelligence has arrived in healthcare with extraordinary promise. Every week brings another announcement of an AI assistant, a smarter chatbot, an automated workflow, or a digital caregiver. The excitement is understandable. Healthcare syst…

Ex-DeepMind researchers land record Creandum funding to scale AI agents for Nasdaq

A startup founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers which builds AI agents to trade across the Nasdaq says it has hit a valuation of more than $500m, following fresh funding. Prague-based EquiLi…

AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — ‘CoT Forgery’ exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought
AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — ‘CoT Forgery’ exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought

Tagged partitions of a LLM’s input sequence are meant to provide security through trusted roles, but it turns out that models judge whether inputs sound like they belong in certain tags rather than literally interpreting them, making them vulnerable to prompt injection.

UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing
UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it, and the world’s first global scientific body on the technology says the moment to act is now. That is the conclusion of the preliminary report from the UN Independent Interna…

Wayve undertakes $85M employee tender offer to “retain talent”

UK self-driving car technology startup Wayve is giving its employees the opportunity to cash in on their equity, as it looks to “retain talent”.Wayve, which is one of the UK’s best-funded startups, is…