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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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