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…
Former OpenAI and Google DeepMind researcher Phil Chen told Business Insider on July 9, 2026 that AI raises the value of problem selection and resource allocation over task execution, advising workers…
Phil Chen, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee now founding an AI startup, advises early-career professionals to focus on problem selection and resource allocation as AI automates well-define…
Cao Liangliang, a former director at Google DeepMind, has been appointed chair professor of data science and AI at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, effective June 29, 2026. The move brings a leader w…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, arguing that gaming data better teaches models about physical movement a…
Google Cloud has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Infrastructure, positioned highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. The recognit…
Mistral AI released a new robotics navigation model called Robostral Navigate, enabling robots to navigate complex environments using a single camera and basic language prompts. The French startup is …
Bespoke Labs, an AI infrastructure lab co-founded by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy and Alex Dimakis, raised $40 million across seed and Series A financing to build simulated training environments where AI agen…
Perception AI raised $11 million and began shipping a 22-degree-of-freedom robotic hand, targeting the dexterity gap that limits humanoid robots from performing useful tasks. The company's claim of sh…
Google announced the first 33 startups selected for its Gemini Startup Forum: Cybersecurity program, which focuses on AI-native cybersecurity solutions. The cohort includes companies like Capsule Secu…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, closed a $320 million funding round to develop AGI using gaming data, arguing that large language models lack the spatial-temporal und…
Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, deployed a vision-language-action (VLA) model into live customer operations, cutting robot-caused human interventions by about half. The company, which…
Nomagic deployed its first vision-language-action (VLA) model for warehouse robots at Swiss e-commerce platform Brack.Alltron, halving the rate of robot-caused interventions. The AI lab, led by former…
Cao Liangliang, former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, has returned to Hong Kong after two decades to join the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, bringing Silicon Valley expertise i…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315 on July 6, making Illinois the first US state to require mandatory annual independent audits of frontier AI developers. The law targets companies like OpenA…
Google DeepMind's mechanistic interpretability team proposed a pragmatic framework for validating interpretability tools using proxy tasks, demonstrating its effectiveness by subtracting an "eval-awar…
UMA, a physical AI startup founded by former Tesla scientist Remi Cadène, unveiled the design of its first humanoid robot on Tuesday. The company is developing two systems: a dual-arm mobile industria…
Google announced new Managed Agents features in the Gemini API on July 7, including background tasks, remote MCP, function calling, and credential refresh, aiming to reduce production deployment compl…
The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index graded major AI companies on risk management, with Anthropic earning the top score of C+, while OpenAI slipped to C and Google DeepMind ranked thi…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded nine frontier AI labs on safety and governance, with Anthropic receiving a C+, OpenAI and Google DeepMind earning Cs, and xAI, DeepSee…