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Google DeepMind Disbands AlphaFold Team as AI Strategy Shifts Toward Gemini

Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time authors have left (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times : Sources: Google DeepMind has reassigned the majority of the original authors of the AlphaFold papers; about a quarter of the papers' full-time …

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind staffers are sharing a letter asking the US government to "deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development" (Bloomberg)

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis calls for 'urgent action' during 'precious window before AGI arrives' — and it's all starting to feel a bit Skynet

Even AI’s biggest optimists are asking for guardrails…

This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster

Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.…

Google DeepMind director Cao Liangliang makes a boomerang return to Hong Kong

After a journey including study under luminaries in computer vision and AI sectors, Cao brings Silicon Valley experience to PolyU.…

Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership

Today, Google DeepMind and A24 are announcing a first-of-its-kind partnership focused on research. The collaboration pairs a world-leading research lab with the industry……

The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI, are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers is now valued at more than $500 million.…

Despite the "DeepMind mafia" pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

How the DeepMind mafia brought the AI boom to London

Alphabet stock fell as much as 7.2%, the most intraday since February, after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper became its second top AI exec to leave in a week (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Alphabet stock fell as much as 7.2%, the most intraday since February, after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper became its second top AI exec to leave in a week — Alphabet …

John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize "for protein structure prediction", says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic (John Jumper/@johnjumpersci)

John Jumper / @johnjumpersci : John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction”, says he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic…

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.…

Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciou…

Who verifies the verifier? Notes on DeepMind's formal proof-search paper

An AI built the machine I said mathematics needed — a compiler that verifies proofs for cents instead of expert weekends. The catch is what it still can't read.…

(UK) Ex‑DeepMind team’s Inherent emerges from stealth with ~$50M raise

DeepMind CEO Hassabis moves AGI deadline to 2029

DeepMind CEO Hassabis moves AGI deadline closer to 2029

Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI staff to train "continual learning" models on user interactions, raised a $15M seed at a $115M valuation (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

How DeepMind AlphaProof Nexus Cracks 56-Year-Old Math: Agentic LLM Loops and Lean Formal Verification

How Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus Cracks 56-Year-Old Math Problems: A Deep Dive into...…

Google DeepMind hires philosophers to address AI ethics and morality

Google DeepMind hired Cambridge philosopher Henry Shevlin to tackle AI ethics, machine consciousness, and moral status of AI as the industry races toward AGI.…

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?…

Beating DeepMind AlphaEvolve [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.…

Google DeepMind's Al agent autonomously solved 9 of 353 open Erdos problems in mathematics, at a cost of a few hundred dollars per problem.

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 Erdős problems and proves 44 sequence conjectures

Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved 9 open Erdős problems and proved 44 OEIS conjectures using AI-driven formal verification, with implications for crypto security.…

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says language models can’t understand reality, pushes for ‘world models’

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says LLMs fail at physics and causality, advocates world models as the path to AGI, and showcases Genie 3 project.…

DeepMind CEO: 'AGI' Is Coming Soon, But Here's the Test It Must Pass First

At I/O, Demis Hassabis argues that AI is 'the most ferocious competition that's ever been in tech history,' though Google has an edge with its 'broader research bench.'…

Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Warns Benchmarks Won’t Save Us

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AlphaEvolve: Google DeepMind's Gemini-Powered Evolutionary Coding Agent

Inside AlphaEvolve: How Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms Are Self-Optimizing...…

We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks

The Asia-Pacific region is a global engine for economic growth, but it's also highly vulnerable to climate change. While green technologies are gaining momentum, a recen……

Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over US and Israel’s AI use

Exclusive: Google DeepMind agrees to Acas talks after workers sign petitions about governments’ use of AI for defence and intelligence Google DeepMind has agreed to enter formal ta…

Google I/O, World Models, I/O Spaghetti

Google I/O put AI everywhere, for better and for worse. Meanwhile, is DeepMind aligned with Google's business objectives?…

AI engineer says Google unfairly sacked him after he protested against work for Israel

Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims…

An AI Co-Scientist for Hypothesis Generation from Google DeepMind

Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating novel hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation. To augment this process, we introduce C…

Google DeepMind hires staff from Contextual AI in licensing deal, source says - Reuters

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Google DeepMind Hires Staff, Licenses Technology from Contextual AI - The Information

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Google DeepMind hires staff from Contextual AI in licensing deal, Bloomberg News reports

Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (Bloomberg)

Google DeepMind integrates Street View with Project Genie for immersive simulations

Google DeepMind integrates Street View with Project Genie to generate photorealistic interactive worlds from text prompts, raising the bar for metaverse platforms.…

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis criticizes AI job cuts, advocates for productivity gains

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says companies should use AI productivity gains to build more, not lay people off, pushing back on mass displacement fears.…

Managed Agents in the Gemini API

Build and deploy managed agents on the Gemini API. Define agents as files, run them in secure cloud sandboxes.…

Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.…

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash delivers fast, consistent performance that rivals other leading models – at a fraction of the price. It can plan and reason across massive codebases and deploy su…

Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ (Financial Times)

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis emerges as early Anthropic investor

Nobel laureate’s protégés are raising billions and spreading his influence across the AI industry…

Economic impact report examines the value of open biodata infrastructure

Public infrastructures like roads and electricity are so essential to society that people almost take their value for granted. A new report by Frontier Economics, commissioned by E…

Gemma 4: From Raspberry Pi to Research Workstation — One Architecture, No Quality Compromise

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 TL;DR — Gemma 4 is four...…