Google DeepMind published its AI Control Roadmap (v0.1) in June 2026, proposing a security framework for AI agents that assumes alignment training may fail and treats deployed agents as potential insi…
An open letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind warns that uncontrolled AI development risks outpacing human control, urging the US government to l…
River AI, founded by former xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, is seeking up to $1 billion in funding at a valuation of roughly $5 billion to develop personalized AI agents that users can retrain. The co…
Anthropic will begin adding invisible watermarks to text generated by its Claude models in the EU from 2 August, as part of compliance with the EU AI Act, and the markings will apply worldwide. Howeve…
Researchers from Google DeepMind and Google Research have developed WeatherNext Cyclones (WN-C), an AI system that outperformed leading systems in tropical cyclone tracking, intensity forecasting, and…
Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team has asked job applicants to fill out an additional form because the company's internal application system has a "non-trivial probability" of incorrectly…
Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team is telling job applicants to use a special workaround form because it does not trust Google's own AI hiring filters to fairly screen candidates, accordi…
Anthropic rolled out an imperceptible watermark for AI-generated text in its Claude models, effective August 2, as part of its commitments under the European Union AI Act. The watermark, which persist…
Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team is telling job candidates to fill out a special form to avoid being incorrectly screened out by the company's internal AI application systems, according…
Anthropic now watermarks all text and files generated by its Claude models globally, including API output, with models launched on or after August 2, 2026 embedding an imperceptible statistical waterm…
Anthropic will embed machine-readable watermarks into all text generated by Claude models launched after August 2, 2026, complying with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice. The watermarks, …
Four former Google researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals — left Google in August 2026 to launch Discovery Loop, a company betting that the fastest route to superintellig…
In 2026, tech companies are offering multimillion-dollar packages to elite AI talent while cutting thousands of general tech jobs, with Meta, Elon Musk's 'elite unit', and Amazon competing fiercely. A…
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, Fable 5, and Opus 4.8 top the OSWorld-Verified leaderboard with scores of 85.4%, 85.0%, and 83.4%, up from 12% in April 2024, surpassing the human baseline of 72%. H…
At Black Hat USA, security analysts warned that AI-driven cyberattacks are outpacing defenders, with Dave Vellante, chief analyst for theCUBE Research, stating the gap between attacks and responses is…
Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO to become chief scientist and chairman, with CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day operations as senior vice president, a leadersh…
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and cofounder of Schmidt Sciences, and Suhas Mahesh, who leads the AI for science work at the AI Center of Schmidt Sciences, argue in an op-ed that AI agents, not ne…
Ilya Sutskever, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei lead the top 10 AI influencers of 2026, according to a new ranking that highlights frontier builders, infrastructure architects, academic pioneers, and…
Ian Fischer and Shumeet Baluja, former engineers at Google DeepMind, have founded Poetiq, a company focused on recursive self-improvement (RSI) technology built on existing language models, and on Mon…
Demis Hassabis has been replaced as CEO of Google DeepMind by chief technology officer Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will report directly to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, following stalled models, missed deadl…