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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 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

Ars Technica

Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation

Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security.

Jun 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?

If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.

Jun 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.

Jun 9, 2026

Ars Technica

One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses

Meta won't say why or whether it's coming back.

Jun 9, 2026

The Register

Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway

Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps

Jun 9, 2026

Ars Technica

Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers

Some models run in Google's cloud, but without giving Google any kind of access.

Jun 9, 2026

The Verge

Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers

On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council will vote on whether to enact a one-year moratorium on new data centers - just two months after several companies proposed building five large-scale centers in the…

Jun 9, 2026

Ars Technica

Gemini 3.5 and Antigravity come to Google NotebookLM

NotebookLM is getting a big upgrade, but it's only for AI Ultra and enterprise accounts right now.

Jun 8, 2026

The Register

Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era

Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize

Jun 8, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’

"Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.

Jun 7, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.

Jun 6, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Sriram Krishnan is leaving his role as White House AI advisor

Krishnan is reportedly starting a new institution to continue shaping Trump's AI policy.

Jun 6, 2026

TechCrunch AI

The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI

President Donald Trump said he's discussing deals "where the American people can benefit from the success of AI."

Jun 6, 2026

Politico Technology

The lawsuits that could give AI its ‘Big Tobacco’ moment

Litigation attacking chatbots as dangerous products are opening a new frontier in legal fights against tech.

Jun 6, 2026