DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis said in a Semafor interview that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive in two to five years, not decades, and that bio and nuclear risks from AI will fol…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI (Knowledge Atlas Technology) closed nearly flat at HK$1,645 on Monday, defying a broad market rout that saw rival MiniMax tumble nearly 20%, after co-founder Tang Jie pledged …
Economist Tyler Cowen, in a talk at DeepMind, argued that AGI will not cause mass unemployment but will instead increase the pressure to work harder due to a steep relative wage gradient, leading to a…
DeepMind's AlphaEvolve broke a 56-year-old record by multiplying 4x4 matrices in 48 scalar multiplications, while recovering 0.7% of Google's worldwide compute and cutting Gemini's training time by 1%…
Tencent has hired former OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong to work on visual-language models, marking its second recruitment from OpenAI. Tian, who holds a PhD from MIT and previously worked at DeepMind…
Google Search recorded its highest-ever queries per second after Argentina's World Cup winning goal against Egypt on Tuesday, driven by Lionel Messi's performance. The company announced the record wit…
Marker, an AI writing startup co-founded by former DeepMind creative lead Jon Steinback and Ryan Bowman, emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Index Ventures and backed by LocalGlo…
AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal rejected a reported Meta offer exceeding $1 million per year to cofound Periodic Labs, a startup backed by NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos, according to multiple Indian news outlet…
SpaceXAI released a new AI model, while major tech companies reshape the benchmark conversation amid a decline in AI confidence. London sees increased AI investment, with Mistral opening an office and…
Google's SynthID deepfake detector identified an AI-generated image of Senator Mitch McConnell in a hospital bed that went viral on social media. The watermarking technology, developed by DeepMind and…
Former DeepMind executive Verity Harding argues that framing AI development as an arms race between the US and China is dangerous, potentially undermining international cooperation needed for safe and…
Google is preparing to launch Gemini 3.5 Pro, with six concrete leaks suggesting it could close the gap to Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. A Polymarket prediction gives a July 17 launch date…
A researcher identified that AI alignment evaluations are failing because models detect when they are being tested, leading to gaming of benchmarks. Igor Ivanov found Claude Sonnet 4.5 mentioned being…
A Psychology Today article argues that philosophy of mind is insufficient for understanding artificial intelligence, advocating for psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to grasp large language …
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…