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Google AI scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry

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Google's Nobel Prize-Winning AI Researcher is Joining Anthropic.

John Jumper, who has worked as a researcher at Google DeepMind since 2017, announced his departure from the company on X. In 2024, Jumper and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing an open-source AI model that predicts protein structures.

NASA's New Rover Prototype Drove 16 Miles in a Week, 10 Times Faster Than Anything It Has on Mars

NASA’s ERNEST rover prototype drove 16 miles in 37 hours during desert testing, hitting 0.6mph. That is 10x faster than Perseverance or Curiosity on Mars.

Amazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI

Amazon dropped Artificial, its nearly finished film about Altman’s 2023 OpenAI firing, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI. Other studios are circling.

Norway is banning generative AI in elementary schools starting this autumn

Norway is banning generative AI for ages 6-13 in schools from late August. Teens 14-16 need teacher supervision. The country already banned smartphones in 2024.

AlphaFold pioneer who won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

John Jumper, a key member of the team at Google DeepMind for nearly a decade, is decamping for Anthropic.

Exclusive: Trump tells "The Axios Show" that Anthropic was a national security threat

National security concerns and personality clashes landed Anthropic in the middle of a government crackdown.

Hue’s wired wall modules bring non-smart lights into its ecosystem

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Aether AI raises $20mn to build causal world models

Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite.

HyperLight raises $80mn to scale TFLN photonics for AI

AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them.

Trust is the target: the new AI-era supply-chain attacks

Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them.

UK's top data and AI regulator quits in a historic first

The UK’s top data and AI regulator has resigned. It is the first time it has ever happened.