Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is seeking a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November to propose joint international initiatives to address AI risks, including monitoring AI's abilit…
Bill Gates has reversed his stance on AI's impact on jobs, now warning that the technology will cause economic catastrophe with 'far fewer' jobs than exist today, citing the speed of advancements and …
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, said he wants to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November to propose global efforts to mitigate AI risks, including restricting potentially dangerous AI …
Google confirmed on July 21 that it has begun its most ambitious pre-training run yet for Gemini 4, with CEO Sundar Pichai stating on the Q2 earnings call that the model will use a significantly large…
Demis Hassabis, Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, said at a WCIT interview that there is a 50% chance of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2030, defining AGI a…
A 2022 survey of AI researchers with a 17% response rate found that the majority believed there is a 10 percent or greater chance that human inability to control AI will cause an existential catastrop…
Google DeepMind has acquired a minority stake in Fenris Creations, the rebranded studio behind EVE Online, as part of a $120 million management buyout from Pearl Abyss, to use the game's 20-year-old v…
Google DeepMind announced a research partnership with Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, to prototype new gameplay experiences, building on 15 years of AI research in games. The collabora…
A new opinion piece argues that debates over AI consciousness are a distraction that lets companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta escape liability for harms caused by their systems. The pie…
David Schwartz, Ripple's CTO emeritus, warned that government rules on AI safety and copyright could give authorities unprecedented control over political and social speech, arguing that such regulati…
Alphabet Inc. reshuffled Google DeepMind leadership on 5 August 2026, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as chief executive to become chairman of Google DeepMind and Alphabet chief scientist, while Kor…
On 5 August 2026, Google DeepMind ended its founder-led era as Demis Hassabis stepped back to Chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu became SVP reporting directly to Sundar Pichai wi…
Jeff Dean, former chief scientist at Google and now cofounder and CEO of DiscoveryLoop, advised students at the Asian American Scholar Forum's 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium to skim 10 papers or 10…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a rare post on X on Saturday that the AI industry can win over the public by delivering tangible scientific breakthroughs, such as actually curing cancer, rather tha…
Dwarkesh Patel's podcast has become a popular venue for in-depth conversations with leading artificial intelligence researchers and executives, offering listeners an unfiltered look at the field's mos…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, proposed the creation of an independent AI-oversight body to Google executives shortly before the company's recent leadership shake-up, according to The…
Canva cut its 2026 growth forecast from 30% to 20%, a move that 20VC x SaaStr hosts Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll say signals an existential threat to the prosumer design tool as AI agents bypass i…
Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13th, replacing Gemini 3.6 Flash after 23 days in production and cutting prices through year-end. The model, led by Tulsee Doshi, Google's senior di…
Google reorganized its AI division, Google DeepMind, last week, with chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving to form a new startup and DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis stepping aside to focus on long-term …
Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder Demis Hassabis is stepping back from the CEO role to become chair, with CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day control, while chief scientist Jeff Dean is also …