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Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4 AI world model with sound

Google DeepMind on Tuesday, October 27, announced Genie 4, the next version of its AI world model. It generates interactive virtual environments in real time that are more realistic than before, and it now produces its own sound. The company…

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DeepMind’s Hassabis now says AGI is two to three years away

Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning co-founder of Google DeepMind, now expects artificial general intelligence to arrive within two to three years. He told The Wall Street Journal News Corp that his timeline keeps getting "nearer and nearer," The Verge reported.…

DeepMind AI solves nine Erdős problems in Science paper

Google DeepMind, part of Alphabet, has published a peer-reviewed account of AlphaProof Nexus, an AI system that solved nine open problems posed by the mathematician Paul Erdős and proved 44 conjectures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). The…

Google DeepMind launches SynthID Bio to watermark AI-designed proteins

Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind on Wednesday introduced SynthID Bio, a watermarking technology that embeds imperceptible, verifiable signatures directly into AI-generated protein sequences and predicted 3D structures — a first-of-its-kind effort to bring provenance tracking to synthetic biology.

AI safety staff take sick leave, quit over fears of technology they built

Researchers at the forefront of artificial intelligence development are taking sick leave, seeking counseling, and resigning in growing numbers as the psychological weight of their work becomes unbearable, according to a Financial Times investigation published on September 22.

DeepMind co-founder launches AGI institute with safety warning

Shane Legg, one of the three co-founders of Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind, warned on Wednesday that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence must not outpace the safety controls designed to govern it, as he announced the launch of the DeepMind Institute, a…

Two Google DeepMind researchers quit, warn AI could ‘kill us all’

Two artificial intelligence researchers have resigned from Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind within days of each other, each warning that the pace of AI development risks catastrophic consequences for humanity. Their departures add to a growing wave of alarm from inside…

Ex-DeepMind scientist says AI is moving too fast to control

Alex Turner, a former research scientist on Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind's scalable alignment team, appeared on Bloomberg on Monday to argue that the pace of AI development has outstripped the ability of governments, companies, and rival superpowers to manage its…

King Charles to host AI summit as industry leaders call for slowdown

King Charles III will this week convene executives from some of the world's most powerful artificial intelligence companies at Dumfries House in Scotland, seeking to forge a shared set of principles for the technology's development. The gathering arrives at a…

Google DeepMind launches AlphaGenome Atlas mapping 9 billion DNA variants

Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind on Tuesday released AlphaGenome Atlas, a database containing predictions for the molecular effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome — an effort the company describes as "the most comprehensive catalogue…

AI labs race to stop models from aiding bioweapon design

Major artificial intelligence companies are intensifying efforts to prevent their most advanced models from being used to design novel viruses or biological weapons, as executives and biosecurity experts warn that a single failure could have catastrophic consequences.

DeepMind’s share of top AI hires in Europe plunges to 19%

Google DeepMind Alphabet Inc., long the dominant employer of elite machine-learning researchers across Europe, has seen its share of top AI hires in the region collapse over the past three years, according to new data published by Fortune on Thursday.

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash as flagship Pro model remains delayed

Alphabet's Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, a new AI model built for software coding and automated business tasks, just three weeks after launching its predecessor — but still offered no timeline for its delayed flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro…

Hassabis pushed AI oversight plan before DeepMind exit

In the weeks before Alphabet announced a sweeping leadership overhaul at Google DeepMind on August 5, Demis Hassabis was quietly working on something beyond model development: a proposal for an independent body to police frontier artificial intelligence, according to The…

Google’s Gemini reaches 1 billion users amid AI leadership shakeup

Alphabet is reshaping the leadership of its most important AI division as it races to keep pace with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly Google DeepMind's CTO and Google's chief AI architect, has been elevated to senior vice president…

AI lab executives claim their systems are now self-improving

Executives at the world's leading artificial intelligence laboratories are making an extraordinary claim with increasing directness: their systems have begun accelerating their own development, marking what they describe as the early stages of an "intelligence explosion."

Google quietly canceled Gemini 3.5 Pro, Semi Analysis says

Google Alphabet Inc. has quietly shelved its much-anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro model, according to a new institutional note from Semi Analysis, the semiconductor and AI research firm. The report argues that rather than delivering the flagship model promised at Google…

Google DeepMind open-sources AI model that adds extra day to cyclone warnings

Google DeepMind Alphabet Inc. published research in Nature on Thursday showing that its WeatherNext AI model has achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting tropical cyclones, effectively giving forecasters an extra day of warning. The company is simultaneously open-sourcing the model to…

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Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO to focus on AGI

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced a major leadership shakeup at Google DeepMind on Wednesday, with co-founder Demis Hassabis transitioning from CEO to chairman of the AI lab while taking on a new role as chief scientist of Alphabet, focused on…

Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 for humanoid robots

Google DeepMind on Thursday unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, a next-generation AI system that extends robot control from the upper body to full whole-body movement, enabling humanoid machines to walk, crouch, manipulate objects, and collaborate with one another.

Google DeepMind disbands Nobel-winning AlphaFold team

Google DeepMind has disbanded the team behind AlphaFold, its Nobel Prize-winning protein structure prediction system, marking a decisive pivot away from specialized scientific AI research toward its Gemini large language model platform, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launch AI bioresilience program

Google DeepMind Alphabet Inc. and Isomorphic Labs on Thursday unveiled a joint bioresilience program that aims to use artificial intelligence to help governments and researchers prevent, detect, and respond to biological threats, from natural disease outbreaks to the potential misuse…

DeepMind warns AI outpacing labs’ ability to test discoveries

Google DeepMind Alphabet Inc. published a new essay on Tuesday warning that AI agents are generating scientific hypotheses and designing experiments faster than laboratories can physically test them, creating what the company called a "growing validation bottleneck" that threatens to…

Google DeepMind’s Hassabis calls for US-led global AI watchdog

Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google Alphabet Inc. DeepMind, is calling on the United States to establish a new global AI regulatory body with the power to screen the world's most advanced AI models and pause their development if…

Tech giants now openly researching whether AI could be conscious

Major artificial intelligence companies are dedicating growing resources to studying whether their increasingly powerful models could develop consciousness or something resembling emotions — a question that until recently was dismissed as science fiction but has now entered the corporate research…

Two more Google DeepMind researchers set to leave for Anthropic, Bloomberg reports

Google Alphabet Inc. is poised to lose two more high-profile AI researchers to Anthropic, according to Bloomberg News, deepening a talent drain that has already rattled investors and sent the company's stock tumbling.

Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

John Jumper, the co-creator of AlphaFold and co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced on Friday that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic.

Google DeepMind publishes plan to defend against rogue AI agents

Google DeepMind Alphabet Inc. on Thursday published what it calls an "AI Control Roadmap," a 35-page technical framework that treats the company's own AI agents not as trusted software tools but as potential insider threats capable of sabotage, data exfiltration,…

AI restores lost Roman writings, transforming digital archaeology

Google DeepMind has unveiled an artificial intelligence model called Aeneas that can decode and restore ancient Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire with remarkable precision, according to research published in Nature this week. Named after the mythical Trojan hero, the…

DeepMind’s Aeneas AI tool deciphers hidden patterns in ancient Roman texts

Google DeepMind researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can decipher, restore, and provide new historical insights about ancient Roman inscriptions, according to a study published today in Nature. The AI model, called Aeneas, analyzed one of Rome's most…