NIST AI safety center lead departs
Chris Fall has departed as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology after just a few months in the role, an agency spokesper…
Chris Fall has departed as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology after just a few months in the role, an agency spokesper…
Google released three new Gemini AI models on Tuesday: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, all built on Gemini 3.5 Flash. The models offer improved token efficiency, s…
Google released three new lightweight Gemini AI models—Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber—on July 21, 2026, but the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed, missing it…
Support is building for a U.S. AI self-regulatory body modeled on FINRA, an idea proposed by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis that has gained endorsements from Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Mic…
Google DeepMind on Tuesday released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, but did not include the long-anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro. The new models focus on efficiency, latency, and rel…
A new book, 'Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)' (ISBN-13 9781633434677), teaches readers how to add reasoning capabilities to a pre-trained large language model through hands-on code examples, co…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber in CodeMender, with 3.6 Flash reducing output token usage by 17% compared to 3.5 Flash and priced at $1.50/1M input tok…
Google Cloud has launched CodeMender, a managed code security agent now in preview that uses AI to automatically scan, verify, and remediate software vulnerabilities. The tool, built on Google DeepMin…
Alex Turner, a former research scientist at Google DeepMind, quit after failing to stop the company from signing a Pentagon deal that removed restrictions against using AI for weapons and surveillance…
World No. 1 Go player Shin Jin-seo defeated KataGo, the world's strongest Go AI, 2-1 in a historic exhibition match Tuesday, becoming the first human to win an official series against the AI under a t…
Tech workers are increasingly unionizing to contest corporate deployment of artificial intelligence, driven by mass layoffs tied to AI and anxieties about its use. Workers from Google DeepMind and Met…
Anthropic has opened applications for a grant program under its AI for Science initiative, offering up to $50,000 in Claude API credits to researchers working on rare genetic diseases. The program, an…
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch posted on X that AI is revealing everything is code, from slide decks to the universe itself, arguing that AI has dissolved boundaries between disciplines by directly writin…
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, a lightweight multimodal model described in the Gemini API documentation as a stable model supporting code execution, function calling, search grounding, struc…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, 2026, but public API availability has not yet been confirmed. The model has received 4,747 vot…
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model fine-tuned to find, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities, has not been released as of July 22, 2026. Announced in July 2…
Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned after just three months on the job, the agency confirmed to multiple news outlets. Fall, previously director of…
A columnist for Le Devoir expresses boredom with the AI debate, criticizing the media frenzy, hypocritical tech leaders like Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, and the marketing of AI dangers while selling …
A single 24GB GPU like the RTX 3090 or RTX 4090 is the practical floor for serious local inference in 2026, and the best strategy is to run modern 20B–35B-class models at Q4_K_M quantization rather th…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model, due to efforts to improve coding capabilities, according to people familiar with the…