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…
Reka released CS2-10k, a large-scale dataset and rendering pipeline built from Counter-Strike 2 professional match demos, providing over 10,000 hours of egocentric video with per-frame action annotati…
Alphabet faces a talent crisis as four senior AI researchers, including Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer, departed for OpenAI and Anthropic within a week, triggering Alphabet…
Shrijith Venkatramana, building git-lrc, explains that synthetic data has become a key ingredient for scaling modern large language models. By 2022, frontier AI labs had exhausted much of the public h…
Reinforcement learning trains AI agents through trial and error, rewarding desired actions and penalizing mistakes, similar to teaching a dog to fetch. This approach powers systems like AlphaGo, robot…
Google delays the launch of its Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model from June to July 2025, citing feedback from early testers and tuning for agentic tasks. The delay coincides with the departure of key researche…
OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI chip, codenamed Jalapeño, built with Broadcom, marking a shift toward hardware self-sufficiency. Google embedded computer use directly into Gemini 3.5 Flash, moving…