Google must open its ad auctions to rivals and accept years of outside oversight, according to the full decision in the US government’s ad tech case, unsealed on Wednesday. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on 2 September that Google would not ha…
“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research …
Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home’s data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on […]
Google, Nvidia and the startup Emerald AI have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA). The coalition wants data centres to cut their power use when the electricity grid is under strain. In return, it wants grid operators to connect those dat…
Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it’s time to make everyone slow down before we lose control – including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X […]
Donald Trump has called fears about AI a “HOAX” in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI dow…
Amazon, Netflix, and YouTube have formed a new policy coalition to lobby Washington on behalf of streaming services, including on live sports. The Streaming Access and Choice Alliance (SACA) launched on 14 September, with the three companies as foundin…
Apple has released iOS 27, and with it the first public version of Siri AI, its rebuilt voice assistant. The Siri AI beta started rolling out in English on 14 September. It arrived alongside iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and tvOS 27. Ap…
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to “pace the frontier,” signing on at least partially to a […]
Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a con…