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How a Google DeepMind Spinoff Hunts Hidden Drug Targets

For more than a decade, artificial intelligence has been touted as a way to dramatically accelerate drug discovery. Yet despite billions of dollars in investment, relatively few AI-designed medicines have made it to patients. That’s partially because the timelines for careful drug testing can’t be easily compressed—and partially because drug development is just really hard. Isomorphic Labs, the Google DeepMind spinout that’s building on DeepMind’s Nobel Prize-winning work on protein structure pr

Jun 11, 2026

The Verge

The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models

Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is pois…

Jun 13, 2026

Ars Technica

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 "jailbreak" could be a national security threat.

Jun 13, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," the …

Jun 13, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.

Jun 12, 2026

The Register

SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?

We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair

Jun 12, 2026

Ars Technica

Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do

It isn't the only startup tackling physical AI, but it's one of the best-funded.

Jun 12, 2026

Ars Technica

Ukraine's one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers

Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.

Jun 12, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.

Jun 12, 2026

Ars Technica

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."

Jun 12, 2026

The Verge

Siri is good now??

You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honest…

Jun 12, 2026

Ars Technica

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Jun 12, 2026

Ars Technica

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

Jun 12, 2026

The Register

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled

Jun 12, 2026

The Register

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year

The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage

Jun 12, 2026

The Register

Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale

Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box

Jun 12, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale

Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation

Jun 12, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

Jun 12, 2026

The Register

Claude is ready for its corporate close-up

IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements

Jun 11, 2026

The Register

Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss

'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs

Jun 11, 2026

The Register

Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits

Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI

Jun 11, 2026

The Register

Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation

Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory

Jun 11, 2026

The Verge

Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year

Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time. With conc…

Jun 11, 2026

Politico Technology

Sacramento’s AI question: protect jobs or soften the blow?

California’s current and future leaders are faced with a policy dilemma when it comes to the specter of Ai-driven job displacement.

Jun 11, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of millions of different AI agents interacting with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and …

Jun 11, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Why China is betting on big nuclear reactors

It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a stunning pace. The country has nearly doubled its nuclear fleet since 2016, reaching nearly 60 gigawatts of tot…

Jun 11, 2026

Politico Technology

White House's new push to block state AI laws could ride on kids’ safety

Separate meetings this week with children's advocates and the tech industry came just days after a bipartisan House proposal on AI got a chilly reception.

Jun 11, 2026

The Register

Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate

PRC eyes are watching you

Jun 11, 2026

The Register

Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly for enterprise applications

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims

A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.

Jun 10, 2026

Politico Technology

Anthropic backs mandatory testing for frontier AI models

The AI company's CEO Dario Amodei suggested tax measures including “universal capital accounts” to respond to AI-driven job losses.

Jun 10, 2026

The Register

It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts

Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues

Companies are burning through exorbitant sums of money to keep pace in the AI arms race. Debt is climbing.

Jun 10, 2026

Ars Technica

Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

Diffusion AI is most common in image generation, but it can make text outputs much faster.

Jun 10, 2026

Ars Technica

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI

The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.

Jun 10, 2026

Politico Technology

Meta keeps distance from Trump's AI ownership idea

The Meta executive said the notion that the U.S. government should receive a financial stake in top AI companies is "not something we’ve spent a ton of time on."

Jun 10, 2026

The Register

Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030

Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

How memory tools can make AI models worse

New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers are complaining that Anthropic's new model Fable has guardrails that are too strict for any cybersecurity work.

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.

Jun 10, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

Timing Trick Cuts Energy Used in LLM Training by Up to 14 Percent

OpenAI’s fourth large language model (LLM), GPT-4, took an estimated 50 Gigawatt-hours to train, or the equivalent of 5,000 American homes‘ yearly power consumption. That was in 2023. Since then, the …

Jun 10, 2026

The Register

Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning

Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing

Jun 10, 2026

The Verge

WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free

Meta has been ordered by the European Commission to restore free WhatsApp access for chatbots made by rival AI providers while the regulator finishes its antitrust investigation. The rare interim meas…

Jun 10, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance

The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.

Jun 10, 2026

The Verge

GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech

At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data center…

Jun 9, 2026

The Register

Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos

Company also changes data retention policy

Jun 9, 2026

Ars Technica

Anthropic says these topics are too dangerous to let its Fable 5 model talk about

New frontier model refuses cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry queries.

Jun 9, 2026