OpenAI has claimed that an unreleased model has solved 10 major open mathematics problems, a result that, if verified, would mark a qualitative leap in AI reasoning beyond memorized knowledge. The cla…
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a government-gated 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, followed by DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, signaling a strategy to commoditize the…
Google's DeepMind is hiring a Research Engineer for its AGI Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT) in San Francisco, Mountain View, or New York, offering a salary of $174,000–$253,000 plus bonus, equity, an…
In Episode 255 of The Robot Report Podcast, Derik Pridmore, CEO and co-founder of OSARO, discussed how warehouse robotics has evolved from limited perception systems to adaptable AI-driven automation,…
A developer implementing reinforcement learning algorithms from scratch in JAX reports that PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), the algorithm behind ChatGPT's RLHF training, is simpler than expected. …
OpenAI slashed prices for its GPT-5.6 models by 80% just three weeks after launch, citing internal efficiency gains. DeepMind unveiled a whole-body robotics system with a single unified policy achievi…
Google fixed more Chrome security bugs in June 2026 than in the previous two years combined, using AI-powered vulnerability discovery agents built with Gemini and other models. The Chrome Security tea…
Citadel has acquired Situational Awareness, a startup building foundation models for real-time geopolitical and financial event analysis, after Citadel's internal AI division lost roughly $340 million…
Google has launched Gemini Robotics 2, an advanced system under its DeepMind lab to enhance dexterity and multi-robot collaboration in humanoid robots. The launch signals Google's continued investment…
More than 125 U.K. lawmakers have backed a campaign for the government to formally recognize artificial general intelligence as a national and global security threat, with philosopher Yuval Noah Harar…
Relation Therapeutics unveiled MORGAN, a cellular foundation model, and an expanded collaboration with GSK worth up to $110 million to generate the biological data needed to train it. The London start…
The European Union has launched a call for seven AI gigafactories—massive compute clusters designed to train frontier models—managed through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, aiming to close the compute …
OpenAI researcher Roon and former UK AI Security Institute member Geoffrey Irving debated the feasibility of a unilateral AI development slowdown, with Roon arguing that removing any single company wo…
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…
More than 1,200 AI workers from Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and Meta, including CEOs and chief scientists, signed a statement Tuesday asking the U.S. government to help build technical and governance…
Enigma, a physical AI startup founded by two former Unit 8200 officers, emerged from stealth on July 27 with $71 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, and opened 100 of its…
Nvidia led an $800 million investment in Reflection AI, a startup founded in March 2024 by former DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, which has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion…
Google shipped Lyria 3.5 to Flow Music on July 29th, adding direct BPM control and more expressive vocals to DeepMind's music generation model. The update produces richer arrangements and follows crea…
Over 1,224 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (including DeepMind), and Meta have signed an open letter titled 'Pacing the Frontier,' urging the US government to support international governance…
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…