Researchers at Google DeepMind instrumented DiffusionGemma 26B, a masked discrete-diffusion mixture-of-experts model, and found its decoding is neither parallel nor sequential but follows a partial le…
HSBC announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud to deploy artificial intelligence across its global operations, targeting roughly 200 new AI initiatives over two years, each expect…
A nine-person team at Chinese social media company Sina Weibo developed VibeThinker-3B, a 3-billion-parameter language model that matches the reasoning performance of flagship AI models hundreds of ti…
The UK government partnered with Google DeepMind to develop Extract, an AI tool that digitizes housing planning documents in 40 seconds instead of two hours. Prime Minister Keir Starmer launched the p…
Google DeepMind is partnering with the UK government to develop an AI-powered planning prototype built with Gemini, aiming to halve the time for processing householder planning applications. The tool …
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ordered Anthropic to halt exports of its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, citing national security risks to China and Russia. The first-ever use of expor…
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick imposed export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models under the Export Control Reform Act, citing national security risks. Anthropic disabled globa…
Anthropic faces a developer and researcher exodus after refusing to grant the US government access to its AI models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, leading to contract terminations and a…
Berlin-based audit AI firm Cortea raised €12m (£10.3m) in a funding round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from former KPMG global head of audit Larry Bradley, to expand into the UK market. The…
Google DeepMind researchers trained Gemini 3 Flash to exhibit positive traits by midtraining on synthetic documents describing the model's traits, then finetuning on synthetic chat data where it demon…
Amazon Bedrock announced the availability of Gemma 4 models, a family of open-weight AI models from Google DeepMind, including dense and mixture-of-experts variants with built-in reasoning, function c…
Hundreds of Stanford University students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, protesting Google's contracts with the Israeli Defense Forces and U.S. Immigration and Customs En…
AWS announced the general availability of Graviton5-powered EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, offering up to 25% better compute performance over Graviton4. The company also made Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 mo…
For the first time, an Earth observation satellite has used a vision-language model in orbit to autonomously identify areas of interest from natural language queries, without human analysts. The miles…
French President Emmanuel Macron is promoting France as an AI hub by linking data center growth to the country's low-carbon nuclear power capacity. He persuaded SoftBank Group to consider up to €75 bi…
Hyundai Motor Group's Boston Dynamics has made significant progress toward humanoid robot autonomy, with Atlas now capable of learning from millions of hours of simulation in a single day, according t…
Google DeepMind researchers investigate why filtering supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data fails to remove safety-relevant properties from language models, proposing a method to identify the source of th…
AI agents, autonomous systems capable of reasoning, planning, using tools, and retaining memory, are transforming software engineering by moving beyond traditional chatbots. These agents integrate lar…
Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma on June 10, 2026, a 26B open-weight text diffusion model that generates 256 tokens simultaneously, achieving up to 1,008 tokens per second on an H100—4-5x faste…
Google DeepMind researchers found that supervised fine-tuning (SFT), not reinforcement learning, drives most safety properties in Gemini models. Comparing SFT-only versions of Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemin…