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Google DeepMind has partnered with the U.K. government’s AI Security Institute (AISI) to turn “cutting-edge AI into real benefits,” according to a press release published Thursday. DeepMind will open its first automated research lab in the U.K. next year. The lab will be fully integrated with Gemini and will focus on developing new superconductor materials…

In August, Elon Musk touted the potential of Grok 5, the namesake AI from the billionaire’s xAI startup. “I think it has a shot at being true AGI. Haven’t felt that about anything before,” he said. He has also claimed “higher intelligence density per gigabyte” than competitors. While definitions of AGI — artificial general intelligence…

The White House announced “a dedicated, coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery that can solve the most challenging problems of this century,” the Genesis Mission, according to an executive order published on Monday.  The mission will train AI agents to test hypotheses, automate research workflows and accelerate innovation…

CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, in partnership with Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and Google Australia, has launched a global competition with a $75,000 (USD) prize pool to advance the use of AI in agriculture.  The challenge, hosted on Kaggle, aims to improve the accuracy and efficiency of estimating pasture biomass, a critical factor in…

The United States is in a global technology race it can still win, but only if it stops getting in its own way. That’s the message from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who frames the contest not as a matter of destiny, but of will. “I want America to win. I am here because of…

The Oklahoma Department of Commerce reported more than $13.7 billion in new capital investment announced year-to-date, surpassing the state’s 2023 record of about $8 billion. The total follows Google’s August 13 pledge to invest $9 billion over two years in cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new Stillwater data-center campus and an expansion of its…

Google’s recent sustainability report reveals that the company has more than doubled its electricity use in the past four years. In 2024, Google’s data centers used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity, up from 14.4 million megawatt-hours in 2020. In 2024, data centers accounted for 95.8% of the entire company’s electricity use.  While Google reported that…

This past week, some of the world’s biggest R&D players doubled down on growth — Johnson & Johnson pledged $55B in U.S. investments, and AstraZeneca announced a new global R&D center in China — while others tightened their belts. Audi and Siemens both revealed significant job cuts, underscoring the shifting priorities in a fast-paced market…

In a move signaling a more relaxed regulatory approach to the booming AI sector, UK regulators announced they would not investigate Google’s $2 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic. The move mirrors a similar decision regarding Amazon’s earlier $4 billion stake. This green light comes as Amazon doubles, bringing its total investment in Anthropic to…

Amazon recently doubled down on its Anthropic investment with an additional $4 billion, while NVIDIA reported another quarter of remarkable growth with sales hitting $35.1 billion. Meanwhile, a debate emerged at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit about whether AI development is hitting a scaling wall, with industry leaders like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Scale AI’s Alexandr…