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…
Google is in talks to pay over $1.5 billion for Mechanize, a startup that trains AI agents to write code, according to Business Insider. The deal, valued at close to $2 billion, would license Mechaniz…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison told Startup School 2026 attendees that new business creation is running at twice last year's rate, citing Stripe's own data on the AI economy. Collison, who co-founded Str…
Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean said at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that AI models have reached the capability of junior engineers, a prediction he made in May 2025, and predicted that by 2027…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta'…
Infrastructure automation startup SkyPilot Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with participation from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean,…
Google is reportedly developing a server chip called 'Frozen v2' that hardwires parts of its Gemini AI model architecture into silicon, aiming to cut inference costs by producing six to 10 times as ma…
SkyPilot emerged from stealth on July 21 with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital, backed by personal checks from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, Hugging Face CEO …
Elorian, a Palo Alto-based startup building visual-reasoning AI, has raised $55 million in seed funding at a $300 million post-money valuation before shipping a product. The round was co-led by Strike…
Andrew Dai, a former DeepMind researcher, raised $55 million in seed funding at a $300 million post-money valuation for his visual AI startup Elorian AI, which aims to build AI systems that reason nat…
A former Google DeepMind employee resigned after the company signed a military AI deal with the Pentagon that lacked restrictions against killer robots and mass surveillance, despite internal efforts …
Over 200 researchers and economists, including AI leaders Jack Clark, Jeff Dean, and Yoshua Bengio, issued a statement on July 13, 2026, urging governments to prepare for economic disruptions from rap…
More than 200 experts, including Nobel Prize winners and tech leaders like Eric Schmidt and Reid Hoffman, have signed a letter warning that AI could become radically more powerful within a decade, cau…
More than 200 economists and researchers including 15 Nobel Prize winners signed a statement organized by Korinek, Brynjolfsson, Agrawal, and Cunningham warning that AI-driven labor displacement will …
More than 200 top economists, executives, and researchers, including over a dozen Nobel Prize winners, have signed a letter warning that AI could cause large-scale job displacement if policymakers do …
Choosing between AI-specific majors and traditional STEM degrees shapes careers in artificial intelligence. A hybrid approach combining AI specialization with a STEM foundation offers adaptability as …
Bespoke Labs, a Mountain View startup building simulated environments to train and test AI agents, raised $40 million in a Series A and seed round led by Wing VC and 8VC, with backing from executives …
Vercel released a file-first framework for durable AI agents, Netflix now generates its entire homepage with a single model serving content 20% faster than its previous pipeline, and a fast-growing Gi…
Dhravya Shah raised approximately $3 million in seed funding for Supermemory, a startup building a universal memory API for AI applications. The round was led by Susa Ventures, Browder Capital, and SF…
An unconfirmed leak claims OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release has slipped to mid-July, while Google DeepMind is holding Gemini 3.5 Pro past its June launch window due to quality concerns. The alleged delays, if…