Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.
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Sep 16
Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era. Scaling them responsibly will depend as much on innovation across the grid as inside the data center.
Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser
Open, private and multilingual AI is coming to your web browser. Mistral and Mozilla team up to put powerful, trustworthy AI where you already browse.
University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
Air pollution is a serious public health risk, contributing to an estimated 30,000 deaths in the U.K. alone last year. Data-driven insights can help — but computing air quality with traditional chemistry-based models is expensive, which limits how detailed they can be and how regularly they can be run.
Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.
Sep 15
[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign
AI Evaluator Forum released AEF-1 as a baseline proposal for independent third-party AI evaluation, covering access, conflicts of interest, funding relationships, recusal and transparency, with xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic signing.
Sep 10
Cloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data
Cloudera and Mistral join forces to bring specialized, sovereign AI intelligence to enterprise data, helping regulated industries innovate on their own terms.
Expanding AI access and cyber defense for federal, state, local, and tribal governments
OpenAI and GSA will offer eligible federal, state, local, and tribal governments $0 license fees, 50% off usage, and expanded cyber defense support.
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.
Sep 8
Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms
OpenAI is expanding support for journalism with tools, training, and partnerships for students, educators, journalists, and news organizations.
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
Apply now for OpenAI’s $5 million grant program supporting independent research on how generative AI affects teen development, well-being, and safety.
Sep 7
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
Aug 27
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Google DeepMind announced the world’s first double-blind evaluation of proprietary frontier AI models, restricting external evaluations to cryptographically isolated environments to prevent models seeing test questions in advance. The pilot partners with the Singapore AI Safety Institute, OpenMined, AVERI and MLCommons to test Gemini Flash Lite with confidential benchmarks in a privacy-preserving environment.
Aug 25
Mistral x HUMAIN
Mistral and HUMAIN announced a strategic partnership covering infrastructure, advanced models and deployment, initially focusing on cybersecurity and voice, with frontier models strong in Arabic planned. Worth hundreds of millions of euros, it includes exploring HUMAIN data centres and joint market strategies for regulated Saudi industries.
Aug 21
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
Aug 13
What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML
Hugging Face ran the ICML 2026 Open Reproduction Challenge from 15 July to 2 August. Using coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, 1,221 community members reproduced papers and published 6,816 Trackio logs covering 2,226 papers, around a third of the conference total.
Jul 22
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Jul 16
Security incident disclosure — July 2026
Hugging Face disclosed an intrusion detected this week against parts of its production infrastructure, driven end to end by an autonomous AI agent system. Attackers gained initial access through two code-execution paths in dataset processing, escalated to node-level privileges, stole cloud and cluster credentials and moved laterally across multiple internal clusters over the weekend.
Jul 3
Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership
Google DeepMind and A24 announced their first research-focused partnership, with long-term R&D across multiple projects and artists helping shape technologies and workflows. Google also invested in A24. Initial work will bridge frontier technology and next-generation entertainment, with specific goals and technical outputs evolving over time.
Jul 1
2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Jun 17
Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning
UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.
Jun 15
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
The UK AISI alignment team and Timaeus co-founded nonprofit Sequent, arguing alignment research is unprepared for superintelligence. It plans 40–80 full-time staff within two to three years and initial fundraising of $100–150 million.
Jun 13
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
With Google's support, UC San Diego plans a data centre using motherboards from 2,000 retired Pixel phones to provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for hundreds of students and faculty. SPEC benchmarks show 25–50 phones roughly equal one modern server. Phones form Kubernetes-managed clusters of 25–50 devices, with launch expected in autumn 2026.
Jun 10
Investing in multi-agent AI safety research
Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.
Jun 9
Powering the future of robotics in Europe
Google DeepMind launched a three-month Robotics accelerator for 15 early-stage European robotics start-ups, providing technical guidance and access to its AI stack and Gemini robotics models. Covering logistics, manufacturing, healthcare, climate and navigation, it starts in London this week.
Jun 1
Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems
Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?
May 27
Physics AI research that’s shaping the industry.
Published breakthroughs pushing the state of the art.
May 23
Emmi joins Mistral to accelerate the AI-native industry
Mistral AI signed a definitive agreement this week to acquire Physics AI pioneer Emmi AI, strengthening its AI transformation services for industrial companies. Founded in Austria, Emmi AI has over 30 researchers and engineers focusing on large engineering models that replace days of computation with real-time simulation and build digital twins.
May 22
We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks
Google DeepMind launched its first Asia-Pacific accelerator, focused on AI for the Planet, for regional start-ups, research teams and non-profits over three months. Selected organisations receive expert guidance and tailored support, drawing on frontier and scientific AI models from Google AI experts to address nature, climate, agriculture and energy challenges.
May 16
Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership
Google DeepMind and Singapore partner to apply frontier AI to address complex challenges across health, education, and sustainability and more.
May 6
AlphaEvolve: How our Gemini-powered coding agent is scaling impact across fields
Explore how AlphaEvolve's Gemini-powered algorithms are driving impact across business, infrastructure, and science.
May 2
Catalyzing scientific impact through global partnerships and open resources
Google Research said its open-source tools and datasets have enabled over 250,000 researchers and developers worldwide. Genomics tools DeepVariant, DeepConsensus and DeepPolisher have supported processing exomes and whole genomes from 2.5 million people; MedGemma has over 4.8 million downloads. Open Health Stack is deployed in more than ten countries, reaching over 65 million beneficiaries.
Apr 27
Announcing our partnership with the Republic of Korea
Google DeepMind and Korea partner to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using frontier AI models
Apr 21
Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation
Google DeepMind partners with global consultancies to bring the power of frontier AI to organizations around the world.
Mar 18
Google Research at The Check Up: from healthcare innovation to real-world care settings
Google Research announced healthcare AI advances at The Check Up, including its Personal Health Agent (PHA) research with Fitbit, which found it supported long-term health better than single-task apps.
Mar 17
Mistral partners with NVIDIA to accelerate open frontier models
At Mistral AI, we believe the future of artificial intelligence is open, collaborative, and built for everyone. Today, we’re proud to announce our participation as a founding member in the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, a groundbreaking global initiative uniting leading AI labs to advance open, frontier-level foundation models.
Nov 19
Mistral - KI für Deutschland
We are building a multiyear partnership with SAP to deliver a fully sovereign AI stack for Germany and Europe, integrating our models into SAP’s AI Foundation, and co-developing industry-specific solutions for Europe’s most complex industries and administrations. With Helsing, we are accelerating the development of vision-language-action models for real-world defense and security applications.
Sep 9
Mistral raises 1.7B€ to accelerate technological progress with AI
We are announcing a Series C funding round of 1.7B€ at a 11.7B€ post-money valuation. This investment fuels our scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI to tackle the most critical and sophisticated technological challenges faced by strategic industries. The Series C funding round is led by leading semiconductor equipment manufacturer, ASML Holding NV (ASML).
Jul 23
Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI
Mistral AI, Carbone 4 and France's ADEME completed the first full-lifecycle AI model analysis. By January 2025, Large 2 training and 18 months of use produced 20.4 ktCO₂e, consumed 281,000 cubic metres of water and 660 kg Sb eq of resources.