Letters from frontier AI labs reveal a divide between those advocating aggressive deployment and those urging slower, research-first approaches to safety, with Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind treati…
Google AI pioneer Jeff Dean left the company on August 5, 2026, after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup automating scientific experimentation, while Demis Hassabis stepped back from day-t…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is losing prominent AI veterans in a major leadership overhaul, with shares falling as much as 5.5%. Demis Hassabis, head of Google DeepMind, will become chairman, while Jeff De…
Google DeepMind is overhauling its leadership as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day management to become Alphabet's chief scientist and Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch AI start…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at automating the experimental loops of the scientific …
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning research, with Google as a found…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to focus on AGI as Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu, former CTO,…
Google's chief scientist, Jeff Dean, has departed after 27 years to launch a new AI firm, marking another high-profile exit from Big Tech as elite AI talent increasingly bets on themselves. The positi…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down from his role, according to Axios. Hassabis, who co-founded DeepMind in 2010 and led its integration into Google, will transition to a new position …
Alphabet announced a leadership overhaul of its AI division, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes o…
Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean, along with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, have left Google after nearly 27 years to found Discovery Loop, a startup focused on automating the scientif…
Google announced on August 5 that Demis Hassabis will step down as day-to-day leader of Google DeepMind to become its chair and Alphabet's chief scientist, while Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over as se…
Tom Zahavy, a Google DeepMind researcher and co-author of AlphaProof, argues in an ICML 2026 position paper that large language models have mechanized induction and deduction but lack a mechanism for …
President Trump used the G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, around June 17, 2026, to spotlight voluntary AI safety testing frameworks, gathering CEOs from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic for…
OpenAI has expanded its content provenance work with SynthID watermarking for audio from GPT-Live in ChatGPT Voice and the OpenAI API, plus a verification API for checking whether a supported audio fi…
A new registry cataloguing scientific results produced with AI lists 19 findings as of July 22, 2026, including a counterexample to the Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture by GPT-5.6 Pro and a formally ver…
Artificial intelligence has commodified human thinking, making cognition partially substitutable and its cost abstracted to the price of tokens, according to an analysis of recent AI developments. The…
Lamb Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Niki Kotecha and Thomas Lanning, announced on August 4th that its planned custom inference chips could generate more than 20,000 tokens per second a…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2 and Gemini Robotics ER 2, a suite of models that decouple physical control from reasoning for general-purpose robots. The architecture splits tasks across …
Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, an open-weight language model that generates text via discrete diffusion, achieving roughly 1,500 output tokens per second on a single H100 compared to about 3…