In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing that visual AI was the frontier he wanted to push into. It achieved breakneck fundraising that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-equity ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in US history. In this episode of Build Mode, host and Startup Battlefield lead Isabelle Johannessen
In an X post on Tuesday morning, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee frontier model releases. Titled “A framework for frontier AI and the dawn of a new era,” the publication advocates for a “standards body” modeled on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which
Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London-based employees stumbled over the possibility of unionizing this week, after initial talks left union representatives feeling like they had wasted their time, WIRED has learned. In May, DeepMind employees asked Google to recognize the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives. The company later rejected
David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with a kind of mastery that went far beyond mimicry. Silver has since founded his own company, Ineffable Intelligence, that aims to build