A wave of investment and product pivots toward world models is reshaping AI development, with Runway raising $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation for world-model pretraining and Yann LeCun launchi…
Hudson River Trading (HRT), an algorithmic trading firm, applies artificial intelligence to financial markets by defining AI as a system that perceives its environment and acts to achieve goals. The f…
Three former DeepMind researchers turned their poker AI into a quantitative trading firm, EquiLibre Technologies, now valued at over $500 million after a Series A led by Creandum. The company uses rei…
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague startup founded by former DeepMind researchers who created the poker AI DeepStack, raised a $500 million Series A led by Creandum. The company uses reinforcement learn…
Three former DeepMind researchers who created a poker AI have applied reinforcement learning to stock trading through their startup EquiLibre Technologies, now valued at $500 million after a Series A …
DeepMind hired political philosopher Iason Gabriel in 2017 to address ethical challenges of artificial general intelligence, making him the first active philosopher at a frontier AI lab. Gabriel's wor…
Google DeepMind is reorganizing its AI coding strike team to add a dedicated midtraining phase, aiming to close the gap with Anthropic. The move, involving Sergey Brin and CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, follo…
Indie studio A24 faces fan backlash after signing a $75 million AI research partnership with Google, contradicting the anti-AI stance of its hit film 'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons. Fans accuse the…
A developer released AST-guard, an open-source tool that uses deterministic abstract syntax tree analysis to detect reward hacking in AI-generated code, achieving 96.2% recall on a benchmark of reward…
Alphabet joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 29, with its stock rising about 4% on the debut, making it the sixth-largest weight in the index at roughly 4%. Despite the symbolic milestone,…
Google Cloud will offer specialist AI models from SandboxAQ, called large quantitative models, through its marketplace, pairing them with Gemini to serve scientific fields like drug discovery and mate…
Speculative decoding uses a small draft model to guess tokens and a large model to verify them, cutting AI agent latency without losing quality. The technique, formalized by Google and DeepMind in 202…
Venture capitalist Jason Lemkin said on the '20VC' podcast that top AI talent values freedom to work on problems they care about more than money. Google's loss of researchers Noam Shazeer and John Jum…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promoted 33-year-old Jacob Andreou to EVP of Copilot after just one year at the company, giving him oversight of 11,000 employees. Andreou has merged consumer and enterpris…
Stanford AI Index 2026 data shows China narrowed the U.S. AI performance lead to 2.7 percentage points while investing 23 times less in private capital, intensifying U.S. policy debates over export co…
A24 is defending its research partnership with Google's DeepMind after facing backlash from fans who see the move as a betrayal of the studio's previous stance against generative AI. The studio's comm…
A24 has accepted a $75 million research partnership with Google's DeepMind, granting the AI company access to its creative workflows while promising no direct use of its content library. The deal has …
METR said Friday that OpenAI provided unusually deep pre-deployment access to GPT-5.6 Sol, but the evaluator could not produce a robust measurement of the model's long-horizon capability because the m…
A24 defended its research partnership with Google DeepMind, saying it wants a seat at the table in shaping AI tools for filmmakers, after fans criticized the deal. The partnership gives A24 access to …
Alphabet's 14-15% stake in Anthropic, built with $3 billion in investments since 2023, could be worth over $210 billion if the AI startup's IPO reaches a $3 trillion valuation. Anthropic confidentiall…