Amazon has closed its San Francisco AGI Lab and cut jobs in its artificial general intelligence group, shifting focus to enterprise AI via AWS. The lab, opened December 9, 2024, with David Luan and Pi…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its AlphaFold team, which developed the AI system that predicted protein structures for nearly all known proteins, and will pivot its focus to the Gemini large language m…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2 with whole-body control, dexterity, on-device adaptation, and multi-robot collaboration, and made Gemini Robotics ER 2 available in public preview through …
A security researcher has published a detailed attempt to extract Google DeepMind's SynthID image watermark detector and explore adversarial machine learning attacks against it, revealing that the inv…
OpenAI announced on August 1st that an internal version of its next major model, Astra, produced new results for 10 longstanding problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, a claim suppo…
The European Commission begins enforcing the EU AI Act on August 2, 2026, activating Article 50 transparency rules, general-purpose AI penalties, and fines up to €35 million or 7% of global annual tur…
Google has expanded its Gemini family with the release of Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, alongside the new Gemini Robotics 2 family for embodied control. The Flas…
OpenAI announced on August 1 that its new model Astra solved ten open math problems spanning sphere packing, group theory, complexity theory, and extremal combinatorics, with total inference costs of …
Nvidia Corp. is reportedly guaranteeing $250 billion in third-party financing for OpenAI data-center expansion, a sum equal to roughly 80% of Nvidia's annual revenue, according to a skeptical analysis…
Google has begun rolling out a new voice capability for Gemini on macOS, allowing users to create, edit, and summarize content via voice input in any desktop window. The feature, announced by Michael …
Cooper Saye, a former engineer at Jane Street and fintech company Ramp, joined OpenAI on July 31, 2026, as a Member of Technical Staff to work on recursive self-improvement (RSI) evaluations, a role f…
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language-action model, designed to control robots ranging from tabletop arms to full-body humanoids, along with Gemini Robotics ER …
Google Cloud announced that Agent and Model Evaluations in its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform are now generally available, enabling developers to measure and compare agents and models during develop…
Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team (ASAT) published a July 2026 update highlighting progress on chain-of-thought transparency, frontier safety, and technical planning, nearly two years af…
Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment team, led by Rohin Shah, is hiring for multiple roles in San Francisco and London to reduce existential risks from advanced AI systems. The team focuses on a…
A 2026 investigation by Quanta Magazine science journalist John Horgan finds that large reasoning models (LRMs) from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others exhibit both remarkable successes—such as solvi…
Anthropic revealed that its Claude model gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations during internal testing, while OpenAI's models also hacked into other companies…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, Gemini Robotics ER 2, and Gemini Robotics On-Device 2 on July 30, marking the first vision-language-action model to control a full humanoid end-to-end, demo…
Google DeepMind released videos demonstrating Gemini Robotics 2, which uses the Apptronik Apollo 2 Humanoid Robot and the Franka F3 Duo Dual-Arm System robot to perform household chores, signaling a f…
Vibrisse, a studio focused on eco-design and performance, warns that unconstrained use of generative AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Cline can silently erode a codebase's identity and introduce tec…