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Former Google DeepMind VP Oriol Vinyals states AI self-improvement is coming gradually, not explosively, and co-founded Discovery Loop to automate scientific research by overcoming current AI bottlenecks in idea generation and evaluation.

Former Google DeepMind research scientist Alex Turner discusses AI extinction risk and scientists' concerns on 'Power Lunch'.

A former Google DeepMind safety researcher warns that superintelligent AI poses a unique threat because it could be an adversary capable of anticipating and counteracting human efforts to control it, a risk he deems much higher than desirable.

Google DeepMind has developed a new AI search ranking model called Autoregressive Ranking (ARR) that uses an LLM to replace the current two-stage ranking systems.

Google DeepMind's AI hurricane model is leading all other publicly available hurricane forecast guidance in 2026 for track prediction across multiple basins, outperforming human forecasters at longer lead times.

Former Google DeepMind employees launched Fusionality to develop standardized control systems for fusion power plants, securing $3.7 million in pre-seed funding.

Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome Atlas, a vast database powered by AI that maps the potential effects of billions of genetic variants to transform understanding and research of genetic diseases.

Google DeepMind introduced AlphaGenome Atlas, a public database using AI to predict the effects of genetic variations and aid in disease understanding.

Google DeepMind unveiled the AlphaGenome Atlas, a public database with 9 billion precomputed DNA variant predictions to aid gene regulation research and disease understanding.

Ineffable Intelligence, an AI startup, has expanded its leadership team by hiring six "cofounders," including four former Google DeepMind researchers, to pursue AI superintelligence using reinforcement learning.

Google has launched agentic video understanding for its Gemini models, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of video analysis for long-form content.