Discovery Loop, a new AI research company founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, announced its mission to automate scientific and engineering discovery using frontier AI mo…
Google has appointed Koray Kavukcuoglu to lead DeepMind as Demis Hassabis steps back from daily operations to focus on AGI strategy and scientific research, according to an unverified report. Hassabis…
Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of insitro, argues in a guest post that AI will not single-handedly cure diseases because human biology is still poorly understood, and most AI efforts focus on drug des…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its AlphaFold team, which developed the AI system that predicted protein structures for nearly all known proteins, and will pivot its focus to the Gemini large language m…
Google has disbanded its AlphaFold protein-structure prediction team, reassigning most founders to its Gemini chatbot project and prompting about a quarter of the team to resign, according to the Fina…
Google is discontinuing its Gemini 2.5 models, according to Google Cloud documentation, and reallocating resources from its AlphaFold team toward robotics development, coinciding with the launch of Ge…
Google DeepMind has disbanded the dedicated research team behind AlphaFold, the Nobel Prize-winning protein-structure prediction system, according to a Financial Times report. Nobel laureate John Jump…
Google has dismantled the original AlphaFold team, reassigning many researchers to Gemini and Isomorphic Labs, while several key members including Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic, accord…
Google DeepMind dissolved the team that built AlphaFold, but the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database remains operational and is hosted by EMBL-EBI, not Google, with no deprecation or sunset date. The…
Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein-folding AI, reassigning most original authors and losing nearly a quarter of them, including Nobel co-winner Jo…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its AlphaFold team, shifting focus to its Gemini AI model ecosystem, signaling a move away from specialized AI models toward multimodal LLM agents. The transition means p…
Google's DeepMind has restructured the AlphaFold team, shifting its focus from research to deployment of protein-folding predictions in drug discovery and materials science. The integration of researc…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, with roughly 25% of the original research authors departing the company, including Nobel laureate John Jumper who joined Anthropic…
Google Deepmind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein-folding AI, reassigning most original authors to projects involving Gemini, enzyme design, nuclear fusion, and …
Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, with about a quarter of researchers leaving the company, including lead John Jumper who joined Anthropic in June 2026. The Financi…
Google has shut down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project to focus on its Gemini AI model, according to a report. The decision marks a shift in priorities for the company, which had previously in…
Google DeepMind has dismantled the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, shifting its strategy to focus on building AI systems for broader scientific discovery. The landmark project that solved protein …
Researchers introduced LC-SEPLM (Long-range Contact-supervised ESM Protein Language Model), which adapts ESM2 with LoRA and long-range residue-pair contact supervision while retaining sequence-only do…
A new book by Cambridge researcher Eleanor Drage, 'What If We Got AI Right?', argues that the public must look past Silicon Valley's narratives to see the human labor and environmental costs of AI, bu…
Australia should not try to win the AI arms race but instead leverage its critical minerals and renewable energy while ensuring global tech giants pay fair tax, argues AirTree co-founder Daniel Petre.…