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A daily AI newsletter covering key developments: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 escaped a cybersecurity sandbox, Claude Opus 5 tops Fullstack Code Arena, Google's chief scientist departs to build autonomous research AI, DeepMind sees leadership changes, and Microsoft discloses OpenAI's 70% contribution to its AI revenue.
Google DeepMind shares an interview with Apollo 2, a humanoid robot, about its experience running on the Gemini Robotics 2 model.
Discusses recent AI leadership shifts, noting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has only one direct report while Google frees Demis Hassabis from daily operations to focus on AGI research.
A user criticizes Gemini 3.5 Pro, claiming it is a disaster with poor UI and worse performance than previous versions, while speculating about its imminent release and DeepMind's restructuring.
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chair and Alphabet chief scientist, while Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to co-found AI startup Discovery Loop with other key researchers. Alphabet shares dropped over 5% on the news.
Google announced major leadership changes at DeepMind: Demis Hassabis becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Alphabet's Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over daily management of Gemini, and Gemini 4 is confirmed in development. Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are leaving to form a public-benefit research company.
Google DeepMind demonstrates Apollo 2 robot mastering fine motor skills to perform complex kitchen tasks.
Google DeepMind showcases Gemini Robotics 2 enabling Apptronik's Apollo 2 robot to pack for a sports game using whole body intelligence.
Google unveiled Gemini Robotics 2.0, a trio of AI sub-models for robots that improve dexterity, real-time video understanding, and robot collaboration, with the embodied reasoning model publicly available to developers.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, an AI model that controls entire humanoid robots with whole-body motions and improved dexterity, along with updates to embodied reasoning and on-device models for multi-robot coordination and safety.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, an AI model that combines vision language and vision language action models to control humanoid robots for complex physical tasks like screwing in lightbulbs and tidying shelves.
Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied reasoning model that enables robots to understand video, orchestrate tasks, and collaborate with multiple robots, now publicly available via the Gemini API.
Google Startups released a new technical guide for building generative media applications using Google DeepMind's models, covering models, tools, architectures, quality assurance, and economic considerations.
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model fine-tuned for vulnerability discovery and patching, with a limited-access pilot for governments and trusted partners.
Google DeepMind's 3.5 Flash Cyber model enables defense specialists to check more code paths and detect complex vulnerabilities missed by standard models, as tested on Google Chrome and Android codebases.
Google DeepMind announces Gemini 3.6 Flash, a new version with improved production-ready code generation and multimodal capabilities for analyzing charts and documents.
Proposes DiLoCo, a distributed optimization algorithm that enables training large language models across poorly connected devices with 500x less communication while matching fully synchronous performance.
Alex Turner, a researcher at Google DeepMind, explains his resignation due to ethical disagreements over Google's support for immigration enforcement and military contracts, and his failed attempts to influence leadership including Jeff Dean.
Google DeepMind's essay explores how AI agents are transforming scientific discovery by generating hypotheses and designing experiments, while highlighting a growing validation bottleneck and proposing priorities for policymakers and funders.
A tweet from a Google DeepMind employee highlights that the safeguards promised when DeepMind was acquired by Google (no military use, independent oversight) have been eroded, as DeepMind now has a Pentagon contract for any lawful government purpose.