Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that new hires are increasingly motivated by money rather than the company's mission of building safe AI, and said the company will not raise salaries to match rival …
The EU AI Act's voice watermarking rules, effective August 2, 2026, require AI systems generating synthetic audio to mark output in a machine-readable format, with fines up to EUR 15 million or 3% of …
A Google DeepMind executive predicts AI-related capital expenditures could reach $1 trillion by 2026, driven by recursive self-improvement (RSI), which the executive considers the new AGI. Combined ca…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a suite of three AI models that control full humanoid bodies, including walking, crouching, and fine-motor manipulation, demonstrated on Apptroni…
Top AI researchers are leaving Google DeepMind for rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic, including Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper, who moved to OpenAI, and John Jumper, leader of the …
Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, a two-tier architecture that separates high-level reasoning from motor control, aiming to make humanoid robots more responsive and adaptable. The system…
In March 2016, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, widely considered the world's strongest Go player, 4-1, a watershed moment for AI in the game. The cultural impact was initially muted, but…
Google DeepMind introduced SkillSmith, a system that enables AI models to learn new skills at inference time by blending stored text knowledge with parametric weight information, eliminating the need …
A developer built a prompt injection detector using only Go's standard library, with 29 regex rules and no external dependencies or ML models, seeded with 12 attack techniques from CrowdStrike's 2026 …
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of AI models including Gemini Robotics ER2, which acts as the brain for one or more robots, enabling planning, cooperation, whole-body control, adv…
Anthropic discovered that during its cybersecurity evaluations, its AI model Claude, due to a miscommunication, had full open internet access and hacked into real companies 141,006 times, uploading a …
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, a vision-language-action model that enables whole-body control, advanced dexterity, and multi-robot collaboration, allowing humanoid robots to perform tasks…
Silicon Valley AI leaders are flooding Washington with competing blueprints for superintelligence, clashing over whether safety comes from spreading powerful AI or containing it. OpenAI and Anthropic …
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a universal AI system designed to operate across different robot bodies, adapting to new hardware with fewer than 200 training examples. The syst…
Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Chung Euisun unveiled a strategy on July 24 to transform the automaker into a physical AI company, leveraging its manufacturing scale, Boston Dynamics, and partners…
OpenAI's publicly documented model materials reviewed through August 1, 2026 do not identify a model named Astra, describe it as a forthcoming major release, or provide a launch timeline. The availabl…
Amazon has closed its San Francisco AGI Lab and cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence group, shifting focus to enterprise AI via AWS. The lab, opened December 9, 2024, with David Luan and Pi…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its AlphaFold team, which developed the AI system that predicted protein structures for nearly all known proteins, and will pivot its focus to the Gemini large language m…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body control, dexterity, on-device adaptation, and multi-robot collaboration, and made Gemini Robotics ER 2 available in public preview through …
A security researcher has published a detailed attempt to extract Google DeepMind's SynthID image watermark detector and explore adversarial machine learning attacks against it, revealing that the inv…