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Hassabis proposes FINRA-style standards body to vet frontier AI models
The DeepMind CEO wants labs to submit models for review 30 days before release, starting voluntary and moving to mandatory.

Hassabis calls for US-led global AI watchdog with power to halt frontier models
The Google DeepMind CEO wants an industry-funded regulator running before the end of 2026, with authority to pause risky releases.

Refik Anadol's Dataland opens in LA as first 'museum of AI arts'
The downtown gallery drew 10,000+ visitors in two weeks with a biometric-driven rainforest built on 5 petabytes of self-collected data.

Google DeepMind union talks stall as senior leaders skip opening session
London staff say HR was sent in place of executives; CWU calls the opening meeting a time-wasting exercise.

Google DeepMind partners with A24 on filmmaker-led AI research
Google is investing in the studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and building tools alongside its filmmakers.

Google ships Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers
DeepMind's fastest image model generates in 4 seconds at $0.034 per 1K images; Omni Flash matches Veo 3.1 Fast at $0.10 per second of video.

Amazon MGM drops $40M OpenAI biopic as tech-Hollywood ties tighten
MGM Studios shelved Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman film 'Artificial' near completion, days after Google DeepMind's $75M A24 deal.

Google bakes computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash as a native tool
DeepMind folds its standalone agent model into Flash, letting developers build agents that drive browsers, mobile apps and desktops via one API call.

Google DeepMind invests $75M in A24 to build AI filmmaking tools
The indie studio behind Marty Supreme and Backrooms will co-develop AI features with DeepMind, joining Netflix and Amazon MGM in Hollywood's AI race.

Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
The AlphaFold co-creator is the highest-profile science hire Anthropic has landed from a rival frontier lab.

Loft Orbital's Yam-9 runs first vision-language model in orbit
A Google DeepMind Gemma 3 model running on a Nvidia Jetson chip aboard Yam-9 identified targets from natural language queries.

Tribeca 2026 shows AI filmmaking needs custom models, not vanilla prompts
Google DeepMind and OpenAI brought AI shorts to Tribeca. The standout used custom Veo and Imagen builds trained on hand-painted Pixar concept art.

Apple bets on restrained generative editing in iOS 27 Photos app
iPhone camera chief Jon McCormack says Apple is tuning new Extend and Spatial Reframe tools to minimize hallucinations and protect the subject.

Google DeepMind backs $10M fund to study multi-agent AI safety risks
Rohin Shah says agents deployed at scale create a new risk class, and academia needs to study it before deployment hits the economy.

Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma generates text 4x faster on GPUs
The 26B MoE model hits 1,000+ tokens per second on an H100 by drafting 256 tokens in parallel instead of one at a time.

Google DeepMind launches Gemma 4 12B, an encoder-free multimodal model for laptops
The mid-sized open model runs on 16GB of VRAM and nears 26B benchmark performance, with native audio and vision baked into the LLM backbone.

Google DeepMind ships Gemini 3.5 Live Translate across 70+ languages
The new audio model streams speech-to-speech translation continuously, lagging the speaker by just a few seconds across Meet, Translate, and the Live API.

Google DeepMind picks 15 European robotics startups for AI accelerator
A three-month London program gives founders access to Gemini robotics models, with cohort spanning healthcare microrobots to ocean autonomy.

Anthropic logs 8x code merge jump as researchers benchmark AI gaming society's rules
Anthropic sees early signs of recursive self-improvement, a new benchmark tests AI loophole-hunting, and RL drones beat a human champion at 22 m/s.

OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs sign letter pushing DNA screening law to block AI bioweapons
Altman, Amodei, Hassabis and Suleyman want Congress to require gene synthesis providers to vet every order and customer.

Windborne's WeatherMesh 6 out-forecasts ECMWF with 400 balloons feeding the model
The Stanford-founded startup says its sixth model is as accurate five days out as a traditional forecast is the day before.

Illinois passes frontier AI safety bill requiring third-party audits
SB 315 mandates independent verification of safety practices at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.

Sundar Pichai says Google is reshaping search and the web with AI agents
The Alphabet CEO discusses Google's AI-first restructuring and the future of search traffic to publishers.

Google shifts AI science strategy toward agentic research systems
AlphaFold co-creator John Jumper moved to coding as Google pivots from specialized tools to general-purpose AI scientists.
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