Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned in a blog post that enterprises using AI models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are "paying twice"—once for tokens and again by handing over proprietary knowledg…
A German research consortium coordinated by the KI Bundesverband has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open-source language model that tops benchmarks in English and German among fully open models, surpass…
Researchers from Google DeepMind and the University of Toronto have developed GenCeption, a method that repurposes a pre-trained video generative model into a single unified, feed-forward vision model…
Andrew Dai, a former Google DeepMind researcher, raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation for his visual AI startup Elorian before launching a product. Dai prioritized strategic inv…
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs have announced a joint initiative on bioresilience, using AI to predict and defend against biological threats, building on AlphaFold technology. Isomorphic Labs, fo…
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs released a joint approach to bioresilience, outlining how AI can prevent misuse of models, detect outbreaks, and accelerate response. The companies have advanced mo…
A study using Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemini 3.5 Flash introduced 'safeguard-conditioned uplift' to assess how access conditions affect the utility-risk balance of AI models. When safeguarded assistance…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is pushing for the US AI industry to self-regulate with government support, proposing a new Standards Body modeled on FINRA to test frontier AI models, particularly …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis reiterated his push for a US government-led AI industry self-regulation effort focused on artificial general intelligence and national security, proposing a new Stan…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving to launch an AI drug discovery startup in talks to raise about $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed in discussions to lead the round, though …
A survey of empirical research on AI consciousness, compiled by an author agnostic on whether current systems are conscious, finds that Anthropic and Google DeepMind employ researchers on the topic an…
A former Google DeepMind employee resigned after the company signed a military AI deal with the Pentagon that lacked restrictions against killer robots and mass surveillance, despite internal efforts …
Alex Turner, a research scientist who worked on AI safety at Google DeepMind, resigned in June over Google's agreement to let the Pentagon use its AI for classified operations, saying he could not sta…
Reflection AI signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Amsterdam-based cloud provider Nebius, securing access to Nvidia's newest GB300 chips through 2029. The agreement marks Reflection's s…
World models, an AI architecture that learns dynamics from observation rather than predicting text, are emerging as the next frontier in artificial intelligence, with leaders including Yann LeCun, Dem…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led 'Frontier AI Standardization Body' modeled after FINRA, arguing that AGI is only a few years away and comparing its impact to ten times the Industr…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, proposed creating an independent US regulatory body modeled on FINRA to set standards for frontier AI labs, including a 30-day pre-release assessment window for…
Google DeepMind launched the ATL Saathi live pilot on July 14, 2026, a Gemini-powered web application for students in Atal Tinkering Labs. The design emphasizes a 'hand-back loop' where the AI offers …
Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap, published June 18, 2026, shifts focus from model alignment to system-level security for coding agents. A developer derived five agent security tests from the road…
The Roundtable Context Window Test (RCWT) reveals that large language models (LLMs) suffer a performance cliff when coordination tokens displace task instructions within a fixed 4096-token context win…