AI Labs Are Losing Their Best Researchers to a Startup Gold Rush
Top researchers from Meta, Google, and OpenAI are leaving to found AI startups, raising billions in seed funding. Investors bet these teams will crack the next big thing in AI.
Google employees revolt over Pentagon AI contract for second time
More than 600 Google employees, including DeepMind researchers, signed a letter demanding the company reject a Pentagon contract to deploy AI on classified networks.
Build your own AI benchmarks, says Google DeepMind product lead
Google DeepMind product lead Logan Kilpatrick urges AI companies to build custom benchmarks tailored to their business, arguing that public leaderboards miss what matters.
Google teases new Gemini model arriving "very, very soon"
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says a new Gemini model is coming "very, very soon," sparking speculation about whether it's Gemini 3.5 or Gemini 4.
Google pours $10 billion into Anthropic with $30 billion more on the line
Google is investing an immediate $10 billion in Anthropic at a $350 billion valuation, with up to $30 billion more tied to performance milestones. The deal also includes a 5GW cloud capacity commitment, hot on the heels of Amazon's own megadeal.
Google Maps Platform drops three AI features, including Street View image grounding
Google Maps Platform launched three AI imaging features at Cloud Next: Street View-grounded image generation, automated satellite analysis, and pre-trained object recognition models.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT directly into Google Sheets
OpenAI's new Google Sheets plugin lets you build and analyze spreadsheets using natural language commands, bringing ChatGPT directly into your workflow.
Google's Vision Banana turns an image generator into a visual understanding powerhouse
Google researchers have fine-tuned their Nano Banana Pro image generator to perform visual understanding tasks like segmentation and depth estimation, beating specialized models in several benchmarks.
Google Labs opens up Stitch's DESIGN.md format for AI design systems
Google Labs has open-sourced DESIGN.md, the file format that lets AI agents understand and verify design systems, previously exclusive to its Stitch tool.
Google scrambles to unify its messy AI coding tools into Antigravity
Google is consolidating its fragmented AI coding tools into the Antigravity platform, a move driven by fears of falling behind rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI, even as some of its own engineers prefer the competition.