Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, NYU, and Stanford built an AI called Ataraxos that beat four-time Stratego world champion Pim Niemeijer 15 games to one with four draws, using a second neural ne…
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, New York University, and Stanford University built an AI called Ataraxos that beat Pim Niemeijer, arguably the best Stratego player of all time, 15 gam…
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, a model that leads or ties GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 14 of 19 Google benchmarks and scores 53 on Artificial Analysis, level with Astra but bel…
A team from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and Stanford University published research in Nature on September 30, 2026 describing Ataraxos, an AI system that achieved superhuman …
Google's DeepMind team published a research paper on Wednesday describing a protein watermarking system, built on Google's SynthID technology, that marks AI-designed protein sequences without compromi…
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, a model update that adds photo-realistic, animated and animal faces to give its AI chatbot a near real-time visual presence, according to a report pub…
Google DeepMind's 2020 catalogue of around 60 specification-gaming examples, including a boat-racing agent that circled and hit the same reward blocks instead of finishing the race, is the basis for a…
Google is rationing TPU capacity in what CFO Anat Ashkenazi called a "supply-constrained environment," with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai publicly prioritizing frontier AGI work over Cloud, Search, and Y…
Jacob Coxon, a researcher who resigned from Anthropic on September 10, 2026, publicly claimed that people inside AI development believe there is a greater-than-10% chance that advanced AI leads to hum…
OpenAI and Anthropic have written AI constitutions that attempt to answer the constitutive questions of alignment — what counts as a rule, what it means for an AI to follow one, and what it means to b…
Cloud-based inference for robot AI models is a viable engineering path that could let generalist robots run models too large for on-board GPUs, according to an analysis arguing that scaling laws will …
Amazon publicly staked out its position on AI safety on September 17, 2026, arguing that AI models should be released only after rigorous testing proves they are safe and reliable, while declining to …
Databricks reported a 60% increase in overall coding spend after rolling out GPT-6 Astra to roughly 3,500 engineers, even as benchmarks claim the model is cheaper than Sol on a per-token basis. OpenAI…
Speculative decoding, an inference optimization introduced independently by Chen et al. at DeepMind and Leviathan et al. at Google in 2023, cuts LLM decoding latency without changing output quality by…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk have all called for a slower pace of AI development while safety and regulat…
Former Google researcher Jeff Dean said Gemini's origins trace to a one-page memo he wrote urging separate teams at Google Brain, Legacy DeepMind, and Google Research to combine their people, ideas, a…
A survey of more than 1,500 leading AI researchers put the average estimated probability of an AI extinction scenario at 18 percent in 2024, according to The Decoder. The debate drew comments from Ant…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live, a model code `gemini-3.8-live` designed as the default option for low-latency voice agent experiences and real-time dialogue, with an input token limit of 131,072 and …
OpenAI Group PBC global head of policy Chris Lehane said OpenAI has been working closely with rivals Anthropic PBC and Google LLC's DeepMind research lab to devise a framework ensuring artificial inte…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, an audio-to-audio model that performs background reasoning and asynchronous tool calls while streaming continuous audio, with a 131,072-token input l…