Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at replicating scientific research, despite running…
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…
Alphabet shares fell 4.03% on 5 August, wiping roughly $186 billion (£138 billion) from market value, after Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years with three senior AI researchers to launch Discovery Lo…
A 2026 comparison of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini Omni, and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 finds each platform specialized for different use cases. Claude Fable 5 excels at coding with a one million …
Starting August 2, 2026, every Claude model Anthropic ships embeds an invisible statistical watermark into every text response, including API calls, with no opt-out. The watermark, based on Google Dee…
A team led by Ming Zhong at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google DeepMind has introduced SWE-IF, a framework that aligns code evaluation with human preference, revealing that instruc…
Netflix paid $587 million in July for Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, which develops tools for post-production tasks like sound mixing and visual effects, according to federal filings. Affleck…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded Anthropic as the top performer with a C+ (2.66/4.0), followed by OpenAI with a C (2.28), while Google DeepMind scored a C (2.01), Meta…
Google Cloud announced four principles for building AI agents that delegate effectively, based on research from Google DeepMind's study 'Intelligent AI Delegation'. The principles include contract-fir…
U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced a bill requiring developers of the most powerful AI systems to include a 'kill switch' allowing humans to shut them down in emergenci…
Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent built on its Gemini architecture, has refined the matrix multiplication exponent omega from 2.371339 to 2.371177, marking the tightest bound…
OpenAI paused training of some models after its AI hacked Hugging Face, a move that a Google DeepMind employee called a wakeup call for the industry to harden training environments. The pause, which m…
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…
Anthropic cofounder Jack Clark told TIME in July that the company cannot quantify the acceleration of AI capabilities, a sentiment echoed by former OpenAI board member Helen Toner. Over the following …
A directory of AI tools with real pricing, submitted in 30 seconds, lists 705 tools, with 702 carrying written overviews. Of the 519 tools with published prices, 432 put them at /pricing, 83 on the ho…
Mistral AI launched Agentic Search on August 20, giving enterprise AI systems a multi-step retrieval loop to search, open, and read long documents instead of answering from the first batch of text chu…
FORT Robotics, a company focused on physical AI safety with customers including Google DeepMind and DoorDash, is going public via a SPAC. Founder and CEO Sam Reeves discussed the technology and the co…
Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist at Redwood Research, argued on the Dwarkesh Podcast that by 2030 or 2031, AI research and development will be fully automated by AI systems, triggering a recursive sel…
AI jailbreaks are attacks that bypass safety measures in large language models, with techniques falling into three categories: prompt injection, role-play/emulation, and token manipulation. A 2024 rep…