A little-known AI test site called Nochan is generating buzz in the tech community as a potential grassroots innovation hub, despite lacking the backing of major players like OpenAI or Google DeepMind…
Hundreds of protesters gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to demonstrate against the rapid development of powerful AI systems, marching from OpenAI's headquarters to the offices of Anthropic and Go…
A new scenario, AI 2027, predicts that superhuman AI will arrive within the next five years, with an impact exceeding the Industrial Revolution. The report, informed by trend extrapolations and expert…
VisionAId, a new Android app, turns smartphones into visual assistants for the visually impaired using six on-device deep learning models and optional cloud-based Google Gemini Flash. The app features…
Google DeepMind's Gemma team partnered with Hugging Face in the Fast Gemma Challenge, achieving a 5x inference speed boost for the Gemma 4 model on a single NVIDIA A10G GPU, with peak performance of 4…
Researchers at the University of Maryland and Google DeepMind found that AI-generated fiction is easily detectable due to formulaic narrative structures, moralizing themes, and lack of temporal comple…
Generative AI for spatial content has rapidly evolved from basic 3D asset creation to interactive world models and AI-native CAD between May 2025 and June 2026, driven by releases from Meta, Google De…
Workers at Google DeepMind in the UK voted to unionize, citing concerns over a deal between Google and the US military announced last week. The unionization effort, led by the Communication Workers Un…
Artist Refik Anadol opened Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, in Los Angeles on June 20, featuring an immersive exhibit called Machine Dreams: Rainforest that uses AI trained on natural sc…
Former OpenAI researcher Phil Chen advises professionals to focus on problem selection, time, relationships, and reputation to thrive in the AI era, arguing that human intuition in choosing impactful …
Google Research, Google DeepMind, and university collaborators introduced SensorFM, a wearable health foundation model pretrained on over one trillion minutes of unlabeled sensor data from 5 million p…
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels said companies are shifting toward cheaper open-source AI models to rein in rising costs, citing examples like Uber burning through its 2026 AI budget in four months. Vogels s…
At least 22 professors and researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard have left or taken leave in 2026 to join OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta, accelerating a brain drain from acade…
Google Research introduced SensorFM on July 9th, a wearable health foundation model trained on over one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million consented Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. The mo…
Meta's AI division, Meta Superintelligence (MSL), has made significant progress in the past year following a rebuild after the Llama 4 failure, with advantages in data, talent, and compute that positi…
A Brown University economics professor found that nearly half his students likely cheated using AI on a take-home midterm, with scores averaging 96 percent, but when an in-person final was administere…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano presented evidence that students in his welfare economics class used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm, with grades plummeting when the final exam was held …
A new policy proposal called Plan A urges an international deal to delay superintelligence until 2040, enforce total research transparency, and allow multiple companies globally to scale safely togeth…
Mercor, an AI data startup founded by three college dropouts, reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in June 2025, doubling from $1 billion four months earlier. The company pays doctors, lawyers, an…
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 as an open standard that lets AI models connect to external tools and data without custom integrations. By early 2025, OpenAI and G…