I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping…
Forbes Daily: The Economics Behind Rising Concert Ticket Prices
Google’s frontier AI lab had a major leadership shakeup last week. But the fault lines were visible well…
DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it…
Google DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 enables full body control
DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2 can control the five-fingered, 22 degree-of-freedom SharpaWave hand on Apptronik’s Apollo 2 humanoid.…
DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
In an X post on Tuesday morning, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a…
Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start
Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London-based employees over the possibility of unionization stumbled this week, after initial…
DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver,…
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed…
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has already revolutionized scientists’ understanding of proteins. Now, the ability of the platform to design…
When Sundar Pichai made it clear to Demis Hassabis: Inside Google, DeepMind does not have the ‘bet’ option, it is for…
Demis Hassabis spent over two years negotiating a semi-independent governance structure for DeepMind inside Alphabet—complete with a $1…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says ‘we’ve achieved AGI.’ But no one can agree on what that means
Last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made headlines when he told podcaster Lex Fridman that AGI—artificial general intelligence—had…
AI promised supreme productivity, but it’s actually straining workloads for employees—time spent emailing has doubled, and focused work sessions fell by 9%
AI is actually increasing strain for most employees, as the tools add more time to menial tasks, and…