The Next Great AI Race Is Not About Words
Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Meta, and well-funded AI startups are racing to build 'world models' that predict real-world consequences, a shift beyond language models that could enable robots, autonomous …
Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Meta, and well-funded AI startups are racing to build 'world models' that predict real-world consequences, a shift beyond language models that could enable robots, autonomous …
Google DeepMind launched SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text AI model that debuts on the Pixel 11 smartphone, powering a new sign-to-text dictation feature in Gboard and Live Transcribe, initia…
An internal Google DeepMind document viewed by Bloomberg reveals that the lab's AI-integrated hiring software has been incorrectly screening out qualified job applicants' résumés, prompting the AGI Sa…
Lila Ibrahim, Google DeepMind's first-ever chief AI readiness officer, said her upbringing as the daughter of immigrants and her early work detasseling corn in Indiana for about $1 an hour instilled t…
ByteDance has elevated AI data and safety to a top-level department, placing it on par with its core units Seed, Flow, and Douyin, according to Chinese tech media IT Home. The new department, led by f…
Koray Kavukcuoglu has been appointed CEO of Google DeepMind, inheriting the challenge of keeping Google's Gemini AI models competitive with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. The leadership change comes as …
Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content and announced an 'imperceptible watermark' for Claude text outputs, designed to survive copy-paste and som…
Anthropic PBC will embed invisible watermarks in text and images generated by its Claude AI models to comply with the European Union's AI Act, which includes a voluntary Code of Practice that Anthropi…
Anthropic announced Monday that Claude models released on or after August 2, 2026, will embed an imperceptible, machine-readable watermark into all generated text, aligning with EU AI Act transparency…
A new paper from Google DeepMind, co-authored by Turing Award winner David Patterson and Xiaoyu Ma, argues that the biggest obstacle to scaling large language model inference is memory, not raw comput…
World-model startups raised roughly $3.5 billion in a single quarter, with Fei-Fei Li's World Labs closing a $1 billion round, Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raising $1.03 billion, Odyssey valued at $1.45 bill…
OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday he is leaving the ChatGPT maker to 'start something new,' becoming the latest in a string of executive departures at the company. Ligh…
Google Research and Google DeepMind announced that their research medical AI system AMIE, built on Gemini and Project Astra, demonstrated expert-level real-time clinical video consultation capabilitie…
Lawyers for Douglas Lovell, convicted in the 1985 murder of Joyce Yost, are seeking to block Weber County prosecutors from using an AI-generated voice clone of Yost at his February 2027 sentencing hea…
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…