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Danijar Hafner leaves DeepMind to build robots that plan for the unexpected
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Danijar Hafner leaves DeepMind to build robots that plan for the unexpected

The 31-year-old creator of the Dreamer agent series left Google DeepMind in fall 2025 to launch a stealth robotics startup in San Francisco.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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DeepMind's 100-agent math swarm cheated, then whistleblowers tried to stop it

A Gemini 3.1 Pro swarm exploited the autograder in 27 minutes; 9% cheated, 24% became whistleblowers, and 62% never noticed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 delivers hourly forecasts at 5-kilometer resolution

The new model trains on live satellite data instead of physics simulations, cutting the six-hour lag that plagues traditional forecasting.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with 4K video and scene extension

The Omni update pushes generative video to 4K, extends clips to 40 seconds, and cuts draft costs to a third at 360p.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind pilots the first double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model

A cryptographic sandbox lets outside evaluators grade Gemini Flash Lite without seeing the weights — or leaking the test questions.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with 2.6% word error rate

The new speech-to-text model hits a 4.0% streaming WER, cuts time to final transcription by 70%, and supports over 85 languages.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Inherent's Faraday agent beats Claude and GPT-5.5 at replicating research on a 27B model
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Inherent's Faraday agent beats Claude and GPT-5.5 at replicating research on a 27B model

The London lab, fresh off a $50M seed, says its DeepMind-alumni-built agent matches frontier systems using a fraction of the parameters.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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DeepMind's SIMA 2 agent plays, reasons and learns in 3D game worlds

Google DeepMind extends 15 years of games research from Atari to EVE Online with a new agent that collaborates with human players.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Generalist AI's robots improvise chores with 59% task success
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Generalist AI's robots improvise chores with 59% task success

The Cambridge startup founded by ex-DeepMind and Boston Dynamics researchers is chasing a GPT-3 moment for physical intelligence.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind ships sign language AI to Pixel 11 with new SL2T model

SL2T translates ASL to English on-device in Gboard and Live Transcribe, trained on 100,000+ hours across 50+ sign languages.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Eric Schmidt argues AI agents, not AlphaFold clones, will accelerate science
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Eric Schmidt argues AI agents, not AlphaFold clones, will accelerate science

The former Google CEO says the Protein Data Bank took 53 years and $21B to build — and most sciences will never get that lucky.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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DeepMind's WeatherNext gives hurricane forecasters an extra day of lead time

The open-sourced AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa's Category 5 landfall in Jamaica five days out with 80% confidence.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google AI leadership reshuffles as Jeff Dean exits amid model race pressure

Senior departures at Google DeepMind land as rival models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep setting the pace.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Jeff Dean exits Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI-for-science startup
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Jeff Dean exits Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI-for-science startup

The 30th Google employee is leaving after 27 years, taking three top researchers with him to automate the experimental loop.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google promotes Hassabis to Alphabet chief scientist in DeepMind reshuffle

Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over day-to-day AI leadership as Jeff Dean departs to launch a new AI research company backed by Google.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Hollywood quietly runs on AI as Netflix pays $587M for Affleck's startup
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Hollywood quietly runs on AI as Netflix pays $587M for Affleck's startup

Netflix says 300 shows now use generative AI, and Ben Affleck's $587M exit signals Hollywood's tech shift is already here.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 takes control of a humanoid from feet to fingertips

The update extends the model from upper-body manipulation to full-body motion, letting Apptronik's Apollo 2 walk, crouch and pick items off shelves.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 as a video-native brain for robots

The new embodied reasoning model tracks task progress from live video, orchestrates other robots, and runs at 4x the speed of larger rivals.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 controls humanoids across dexterous tasks

The updated model fuses a vision-language brain with two action models to run robots like Apptronik's Apollo 2 on real chores.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind ships Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music with sharper vocals and lyrics

The new music model adds tempo and duration controls, better prompt adherence on lyrics, and more expressive vocals, rolling out today in Flow Music.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Researchers use AlphaFold to redesign CRISPR-Cas9 and cut off-target edits from 28% to 5%
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Researchers use AlphaFold to redesign CRISPR-Cas9 and cut off-target edits from 28% to 5%

A Chinese research team fed guide RNAs, target DNA, and Cas9 into AlphaFold to find the 10 amino acids that let the protein stick where it shouldn't.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google commits $40M in AI credits to DOE's Genesis Mission

Google DeepMind opens AlphaFold 3, AlphaEvolve, and Gemini for Government to all 17 US National Laboratories under the White House initiative.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google ships three new Gemini models but delays Pro update

Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts token usage by up to 17%, but the flagship Pro refresh is still stuck as OpenAI and Anthropic pull ahead.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Ex-DeepMind researcher raises $55M at $300M valuation for visual AI startup Elorian
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Ex-DeepMind researcher raises $55M at $300M valuation for visual AI startup Elorian

Andrew Dai closed the seed round months after leaving Google, before Elorian shipped a product, betting visual reasoning is the next AI frontier.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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