DeepMind founder ascends to singular AI role at Google
Demis Hassabis, the driving force behind Google DeepMind, is ascending to the role of chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, replacing Jeff Dean who
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Ford’s $30,000 electric truck is called the Fathom. It comes with BlueCruise, bidirectional charging, and a frunk as standard.
Ford’s affordable electric pickup truck now has a name and a price. The company announced on Thursday that the midsize EV will be called the
Nvidia is building an AI safety team, and it has a business reason
You can read Nvidia’s philosophy in a job advert. The chipmaker is assembling a new AI safety and security engineering team, Business Insider reported. A
OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents
The AI race spent two years being about models. This week it moved to the plumbing. On the eve of GPT-5’s first birthday, OpenAI and
DeepSeek made AI cheap. Now it is raising $8bn and buying robots
DeepSeek spent early 2025 proving that a good AI model did not have to cost a fortune. This week it has been busy proving it
Polish data center plans to send its waste heat to the neighbors
As Europe swelters in a heatwave, residents probably don’t want to hear about ways to make their homes even hotter, but that’s what Polish property
Airtable joins Evernote, Brightcove, WeTransfer and AOL in Bending Spoons portfolio
Bending Spoons has snapped up Airtable to add to its portfolio of software companies, alongside AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove and Vimeo Airtable made its name
Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
The White House is drafting an executive order on the disproven link between vaccines and autism, according to independent reports from The Washington Post and
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
This year alone, there have been numerous known instances—often via lawsuits—of AI chatbots (most often, OpenAI’s ChatGPT) that have gone horrifically wrong. A January lawsuit
Adobe just put more than 70 of its tools inside ChatGPT
Adobe’s whole business is the apps creative professionals open every day. This week it put more than 70 of those tools inside a rival’s chatbot.
Google Maps can now order your food, book your hotel, and read your calendar. Ask Maps just became an agent.
Google Maps is no longer just giving directions. The company announced on Thursday that Ask Maps, the Gemini-powered conversational feature it launched in March, is
The White House’s Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR’s Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
A few details from the White House’s A.I. plan have leaked to the news media, but the administration has officially communicated almost nothing.
His AI fund lost 67% in a month. Thousands still copy his trades
The AI trade blew up its own poster child last month, and thousands of people decided to keep betting on him. More than 5,000 retail
OpenAI removes the daily limit on free ChatGPT chats and upgrades the default model to GPT-5.6 Luna
OpenAI is removing usage limits on text chats for free ChatGPT users, the company announced on Thursday. The change means free users can send unlimited