The U.S. military will lose future conflicts if it insists on keeping humans in the loop, as AI-controlled operations will dominate decisive early engagements beyond 2030, according to a CSIS analysis…
Inherent Labs, a 12-employee London startup founded by Google DeepMind alumni, announced that its 27-billion-parameter AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at…
A hands-on comparison of eight ChatGPT alternatives found Anthropic's Claude the closest replacement, with Mistral's Le Chat offering the best value at $14.99/month, according to a tester who spent we…
A developer has released a minimal implementation of LLM watermarking, inspired by Anthropic's upcoming 'is it AI' API and Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text. The code, written in Python using PyTorch and…
A Google DeepMind paper contains multiple hallucinated references, according to a validation report that found fabricated titles and author lists paired with real arXiv and NBER identifiers. The repor…
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 …