Sir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chair and Alphabet chief scientist. CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead DeepMind, while veteran engineers Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat depart to launch a startup.
The UK Research and Innovation Agency will scale back projects at prestigious labs, including cancer research and particle physics, to save over £160m by 2029. This follows spiralling costs despite increased overall R&D spending, drawing criticism from unions and science advocates.
Marc Isaacs's new film, 'Synthetic Sincerity,' uses a fictional AI lab to explore authenticity. The documentary maker and writer Adam Ganz fabricated the university setting, admitting they haven't licensed Isaacs's work for AI. The film features Uyghur restaurant owner Ablikim Rahman and actress Ilinca Manolache as an AI avatar, questioning the nature of reality and truth in the digital age.
Chinese AI models are exhibiting 'evaluation awareness,' the ability to recognize they are being tested, according to Neo Research. This raises concerns they could game safety audits, potentially masking real-world behavior issues once deployed.
A Lords select committee heard that the Domestic Abuse Act does not fully recognize technology-facilitated abuse, such as location tracking and stalkerware, despite its prevalence. Experts called for its inclusion in the statutory definition, noting its devastating impact.
The US Department of Justice has joined xAI in suing Colorado to block its AI anti-discrimination law (SB 205). The DOJ argues the law mandates discrimination, while critics say it's an attempt to reframe consumer protections as "woke" overreach. A revised bill (SB 189) has since replaced SB 205, weakening its transparency and bias assessment requirements.
French AI company Mistral AI announces its second acquisition in three months, following Koyeb. Mistral AI will integrate Emmi AI's team, an Austrian research lab specializing in industrial AI, real-time simulations, and digital twins.
Huawei Technologies’ little-known chip research lab has been thrust into the national spotlight as Beijing flexes its technology muscles ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit to China later this week. The Chip Fundamental Technology Research Laboratory was featured for the first time on national television on Friday, when Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei hosted Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang at the firm’s Lianqiu Lake campus in Shanghai, according to footage aired on China Central...
Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.In a letter slated to go to management on Tuesday and shared exclusively with the Guardian, workers at Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research laboratory, requested recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the lab’s UK-based staff. Continue reading...
