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Google accused of paying employees to do nothing for up to a year to stifle AI talent migration

Google is making use of aggressive noncompete clauses and extended notice periods, leaving employees who wish to change track in limbo, claims former GoogDeepMinder Nando de Freitas.

Tom’s Hardware

DeepMind AI staff reportedly tied to Google with "aggressive" noncompete clause — Preventing them from joining rivals like Microsoft but offering year-long PTO

Google DeepMind leverages noncompete agreements to prevent its AI staff from defecting to rival AI firms for up to a year.

Windows Central

SXSW London: What to expect as special musical guests confirmed

SXSW (South by South West) is coming to London this June, showcasing top musical acts like Mabel, Alice Glass, and NAO for the first European host city edition

Evening Standard

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Google DeepMind 145-page paper predicts AGI matching top human skills could arrive by 2030

DeepMind has released a lengthy paper outlining its approach to AI safety as it tries to build advanced systems that could surpass human intelligence.

Fortune

Ex-footballer Cesc Fabregas and Google DeepMind founder to speak at SXSW London

The event will take place in the city’s Shoreditch area in June.

Evening Standard

Mistral AI CEO shuts down IPO rumors—and doubles down on its 'open' strategy. Will it be enough?

Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch shuts down IPO rumors, reaffirming the startup’s commitment to open-source AI as it scales up to compete with China’s DeepSeek and global AI giants

Fortune

Google DeepMind CEO says that humans have just over 5 years before AI will outsmart them

Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman have all warned that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will outwit humans in the near future.

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Google DeepMind launches robot AI that can figure out how to ‘slam dunk’

Gemini integration allows humanoid bots to be home assistants without any training

The Independent UK

Project Astra joins Gemini arm as Google gears up for a public launch

Google is planning to release Project Astra, and it's becoming part of Gemini ahead of that crucial move.

Android Central

U.K. startup CuspAI adds AI 'godfathers' to advisory board as it hoovers up top researchers from Google DeepMind

Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun both join advisory board of CuspAI, which aims to find novel materials that can help in the fight against climate change.

Fortune

DeepMind CEO claims Google has the "ingredients" to maintain AI lead over DeepSeek's "exaggerated" success — after Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Google already missed the opportunity to be the "default winner"

Demis Hassabis, DeepMind CEO urged employees not to worry about DeepSeek's exaggerated success, citing Google's superiority in the AI landscape.

Windows Central

Microsoft’s AI boss just raided Google — he poached two scientists who built a tool that can transform text into a riveting conversational podcast

Microsoft AI boss and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman recruited new tech talent to work for Microsoft in Zurich.

Fortune

Google Gemini 2.0 is now free for users — here’s how to access it now

Google DeepMind announced today updates to its Gemini 2.0 models, including dropping Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, which is faster than its predecessor — and free.

Tom’s Guide

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons

The tech giant has unveiled an update to its AI principles, which removes references to not pursuing work on weapons and surveillance.

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Mistral boss calls CEOs’ obsession with AI outsmarting humans ‘very religious’

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch thinks the clamor from people like Elon Musk to declare AI as smarter than humans is driven by an apparent God complex.

Fortune

Google DeepMind's new Veo 2 AI video generator trounces OpenAI's Sora with 4K resolution

Google claims Veo 2 has a "better understanding of real-world physics"—an issue that often trips up such tools.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 rumors: Everything we know so far

Here’s everything that we know so far about the Samsung Galaxy S25, from its expected release date and price to its specs, features, and more.

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Microsoft AI CEO poaches former DeepMind colleagues to form the company's new AI health division — A recent study claims 48% of people rely on ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude for health-related queries

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman recently hired Dominic King, a former colleague from his Google DeepMind days to help lead the company's new AI health unit as Vice President.

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AI weather models can now beat the best traditional forecasts

A new machine-learning weather prediction model called GenCast can outperform the best traditional forecasting systems in at least some situations, according to a paper by Google DeepMind researchers published today in Nature.

The Guardian - UK

Google DeepMind predicts weather more accurately than leading system

AI program GenCast performed better than ENS forecast at predicting day-to-day weather and paths of hurricanes and cyclones

The Guardian - UK

‘An AI Fukushima is inevitable’: scientists discuss technology’s immense potential and dangers

Experts are optimistic about energy and drug production breakthroughs but also fear its potential misuse

Fortune

Demis Hassabis-James Manyika: AI will help us understand the very fabric of reality

AI could be the ultimate tool to help accelerate scientific discovery. We’ve been working toward this goal for more than 20 years.

AAP

Future AI chatbots may secretly dob on their users

Subtle changes in the words used by generative AI tools could act as a virtual watermark for the text they produce to tip off readers, research has found.

TechRadar

Will LLMs become the ultimate mediators for better and for worse? DeepMind researchers and Reddit users seem to agree on that

Researchers at Google DeepMind have explored the use of AI to mediate political disputes - and the results were surprising.

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Samsung Galaxy S25 rumors: Specs, release date, price, and more

Here’s everything that we know so far about the Samsung Galaxy S25, from its expected release date and price to its specs, features, and more.

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