DeepMind Offers Europe the Models Europe Is Still Deciding How to Govern
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud said Tuesday they will give up to 200 European scientific researchers direct access to their frontier models, along with $3 million in compute credits. The…
Character.AI Files for Chapter 11 With Disney as Its Opening Bidder
Character.AI, the startup that persuaded millions of people to spend their evenings talking with invented characters, asked a Delaware court for bankruptcy protection on October 12, and the sale that…
Isomorphic Labs Returns to Market Seeking a $40 Billion Price
Five months after closing its largest financing, the artificial-intelligence drug company spun out of Google DeepMind is back in front of investors, this time with a much bigger number attached…
Biohub Recruits Google, Meta and Washington for a $1.8 Billion Cell Atlas
The plan sounds like science fiction until you see the budget. A research institute backed by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is spending $1.8 billion to build a…
Anthropic’s AI Finds an Enzyme System Hidden in Viral DNA
The signal came 21 hours into a search through an enormous database of DNA sequences. One of roughly 950 Claude agents, working on its own, stopped and flagged a repeating…
Google DeepMind Launches an Institute, and Hassabis Proposes a U.S. AI Standards Body
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched a new research institute on September 16, and its opening publications carry a proposal that reaches beyond research. Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind chief executive,…
Microsoft’s AI Chief Takes Aim at Anthropic’s Push for Human-Like Claude
The criticism came in a burst, over two days and across more than one venue. Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft’s AI division, used September 16 and 17 to attack…
Google DeepMind Releases a Map of 9 Billion Genetic Variants
Every human genome carries millions of small differences, single-letter changes in the code of DNA, and for most of them no one knows what they do. On September 9, Google…
OpenAI Says an Internal Model Cracked a Millennium Prize Problem
The answer arrived about 88 hours after the first agents started running. OpenAI said on Tuesday that a swarm of roughly 10,000 coordinated AI agents had solved a version of…
DeepMind’s Cyclone Model Beats Operational Forecasts by a Day
For a meteorologist, a day of extra warning is the difference between an orderly evacuation and a surprise. Google DeepMind published a model on Sunday that claims exactly that advantage:…
