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A divide has reportedly emerged within Google as the company pushes wider adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools across its workforce. According to a Business Insider report, some employees, particularly within its DeepMind unit, have been allowed to use external AI tools for coding, while most others are restricted to internal systems. The situation has…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has reportedly urged DeepMind employees to focus on improving AI agents. This directive comes as the Alphabet-owned company works to advance its automated coding and research capabilities. In a recent internal memo, Brin emphasised the need for urgency in closing the gap in agent-based AI systems designed to handle multi-step tasks,…
Google is said to be in talks with the Department of War (previously Department of Defense) to bring its powerful Gemini AI models into the heart of the US military. However, according to a report from The Information (via news agency Reuters), the tech giant is insisting on strict contract terms to ensure the technology…
Jensen Huang pushed back hard on the idea that Google’s TPUs, Meta’s MTIA chips, Anthropic’s multi-gigawatt compute deal, Amazon’s Trainium4, and OpenAI’s custom Broadcom silicon spell the beginning of the end for Nvidia. Speaking on the Dwarkesh Podcast, the Nvidia CEO called Anthropic’s TPU pivot a one-off, defended CUDA’s staying power, and conceded one early…
Google AI CEO Demis Hassabi has revealed why he chose to stay in London instead of moving to Silicon Valley after Google acquired DeepMind in 2014. Speaking at an event in London hosted by Intelligence Squared, Hassabis said that he chose to stay because wanted to prove that world-class AI work could happen outside the…
Google DeepMind has created a new “Philosopher” role—and hired one of the world’s leading machine consciousness researchers to fill it. Henry Shevlin, Associate Director at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, will focus on machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness starting May. The hire follows Anthropic’s own philosopher-in-residence model and signals a…
The next battle in search may not be about ads or user behaviour, but about rewriting the technology itself. That’s the message from Perplexity AI, which is now positioning its platform as a fundamental rethink of how information is retrieved online. According to a report by Benzinga, Jesse Dwyer, Chief Communications Officer at Perplexity, said:…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis fired back at software engineer Steve Yegge after a viral post claimed Google’s internal AI adoption was no better than John Deere’s. Yegge, citing a conversation with a longtime Google tech director, argued a hiring freeze and reluctance to use Claude Code had left the company stuck. Google’s Addy Osmani…
Anthropic has signed one of the largest compute deals in AI history—committing to multiple gigawatts of TPU capacity from Google and Broadcom, potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The agreement, running through 2031, is a major endorsement of Google’s in-house chips over Nvidia’s GPUs. As the AI industry shifts from model training to inference,…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has called on America technology companies to take the lead in global artificial intelligence development, framing AI as the defining technology of the era and urging the US to develop it “boldly and responsibly so every American benefits.” In a recent CBS 60 Minutes interview, Pichai described AI as “the most…
