Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free 1-petabyte database predicting the biological effect of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA mutations in the human genome, available to academic…
Tom Blomfield, former Y Combinator partner and Monzo cofounder, said in a Tuesday X post that after two months at Anthropic, his new colleagues are a 'hyper-earnest group of meganerds' with a 'surpris…
Jeff Dean left Google on 5 August 2026 after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation automating the scientific method, backed by Google as a founding investor. Google DeepMin…
Anthropic currently has the most stable leadership among frontier AI labs, with the Amodei siblings still at the helm and low turnover, while OpenAI carries the highest churn exposure ahead of an $852…
Demis Hassabis has been replaced as CEO of Google DeepMind by chief technology officer Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will report directly to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, following stalled models, missed deadl…
Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, may not be the best template for AI-driven scientific discovery because it required 53 years and roughly $21 billion to assemb…
Alphabet Inc. announced a complete overhaul of Google DeepMind's leadership on 5 August 2026, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as CEO to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabe…
Google's chief scientist, Jeff Dean, has departed after 27 years to launch a new AI firm, marking another high-profile exit from Big Tech as elite AI talent increasingly bets on themselves. The positi…
Top AI researchers are leaving Google DeepMind for rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic, including Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper, who moved to OpenAI, and John Jumper, leader of the …
OpenAI slashed prices for its GPT-5.6 models by 80% just three weeks after launch, citing internal efficiency gains. DeepMind unveiled a whole-body robotics system with a single unified policy achievi…
Google DeepMind has disbanded the dedicated research team behind AlphaFold, the Nobel Prize-winning protein-structure prediction system, according to a Financial Times report. Nobel laureate John Jump…
Google has dismantled the original AlphaFold team, reassigning many researchers to Gemini and Isomorphic Labs, while several key members including Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic, accord…
Google DeepMind dissolved the team that built AlphaFold, but the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database remains operational and is hosted by EMBL-EBI, not Google, with no deprecation or sunset date. The…
Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein-folding AI, reassigning most original authors and losing nearly a quarter of them, including Nobel co-winner Jo…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, with roughly 25% of the original research authors departing the company, including Nobel laureate John Jumper who joined Anthropic…
Google Deepmind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein-folding AI, reassigning most original authors to projects involving Gemini, enzyme design, nuclear fusion, and …
Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, with about a quarter of researchers leaving the company, including lead John Jumper who joined Anthropic in June 2026. The Financi…
ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to deploy its Claude AI across clinical trial processes, targeting operational bottlenecks rather than scientific discovery. Pip White, An…
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro model is months behind schedule, and six current and former DeepMind employees told Axios that low morale is slowing releases. The talent exodus includes Gemini co-lead Noam Sh…
Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, is hiring a director of investor relations with a salary up to $600,000 as it prepares for an initial public offering. The role involves crafting the company's nar…