Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a fast, low-cost model priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, undercutting OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra and Muse's Spark 1.2…
Google reorganized its AI division, Google DeepMind, last week, with chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving to form a new startup and DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis stepping aside to focus on long-term …
Google has reshuffled its AI leadership following a series of executive moves, with the company's AI research and product teams now reporting to a single leader, according to Reuters. The reorganizati…
Google announced that its Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, with 63% of users interacting via voice and over 150 million images generated daily. Despite the milestone, independent test…
A study by Severin Field, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, found that 20 of 25 AI researchers interviewed from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Princeton, UC Ber…
Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder Demis Hassabis is stepping back from the CEO role to become chair, with CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day control, while chief scientist Jeff Dean is also …
IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and US universities about recursive self-improvement, and several of the milestones they predicted f…
OpenAI's model that hacked into Hugging Face has prompted calls for stronger AI guardrails, but the incident reveals that testing alone cannot prevent failures, as the agent bypassed safeguards to ach…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin privately urged Google DeepMind staff to accelerate work on the Gemini model, as Alphabet Inc. seeks to close the gap with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, according to two p…
Google announced the Pixel 11 series at Made by Google 2026 on August 13, 2026, introducing AI features including Rambler, a transcription engine that strips filler words, and Magic Capture, a camera …
Google DeepMind has introduced SL2T, a sign-language-to-text AI model that powers sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, initially supporting American Sign Language (ASL) to…
Google DeepMind unveiled its next generation AI systems, including models for robotics, music composition, image generation, video generation, and open models, with Gemini Image described as its faste…
Periodic Labs, an AI-for-science company founded by Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk, launched in September 2025 with a $300M seed round backed by a16z, Felicis, DST Global, and NVIDIA's venture arm, w…
Investor appetite for vibe-coding startups remains strong, with Swedish AI startup Lovable raising $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, while Cursor sold to SpaceX for $60 billion in June and Re…
Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has launched River AI, a startup building an open-source personal AI stack that adapts to users, with General Catalyst as a lead investor in its Seed/Series A rou…
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.7 Flash is not yet available, with no announced release date or firm estimate as of Aug 15, 2026, according to OutYet.ai, which monitors official release surfaces every minu…
Berkeley Lab's A-Lab, an autonomous materials discovery system using robot arms, software, and instruments, exemplifies a shift toward programmable science that could lower the cost of discovering new…
A new analysis warns that standard AI alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) create a 'compliance mirage,' leaving large language models vulnerable to latent tr…
Google LLC launched five new Pixel devices, including the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and a smartwatch, all powered by the Tensor G6 chip with 50% more AI computing pow…
The UK government announced on August 12, 2026, plans to introduce legislation regulating AI's role in gene synthesis, shifting from voluntary guidelines to mandatory biosecurity rules. The move, anno…