Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize over Military AI Deals (www.wired.com via hn)
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Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries. In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland,…
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WASHINGTON — Today, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI. Through these expanded…
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Google’s AI architect, Demis Hassabis, lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head (www.theverge.com via reddit)
The Musk v. Altman trial has exposed that OpenAI was born primarily from Elon Musk’s visceral fear that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis would establish an "AGI dictatorship." This concern was so acute that Shivon Zilis, then a researcher at Op…
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Retrospective on Black and White and it's connection to Google DeepMind (www.eurogamer.net via hn)
Black & White at 25: how Lionhead's harebrained, stoner-powered game design became the harbinger of modern AI Peter Molyneux, Google DeepMind's Richard Evans and more on a "groundbreaking" game's creation and legacy. Your disembodied hand…
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Ex-DeepMind David Silver Raises $1.1B for AI Startup Ineffable (www.cnbc.com via hn)
A former top researcher at Google AI division DeepMind announced Monday a record $1.1 billion seed round for his months-old startup, Ineffable Intelligence. The startup is pursuing superintelligence and was founded in late 2025 by UCL prof…
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Google DeepMind Researchers Map Out Ways Hackers Hijack AI Agents (sumsub.com via reddit)
- Apr 03, 2026 - 1 min read Google DeepMind Researchers Map Out Ways Hackers Hijack AI Agents Google DeepMind researchers have released a paper detailing how autonomous AI agents can be hijacked. Photo credit: NorthSky Films / Shutterstock…
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Ineffable Intelligence (founded by ex-DeepMind researcher David Silver) just raised a massive $1.1B seed round. Their idea: Build a “superlearner” AI that doesn’t train on human text at all — only through reinforcement learning and environ…
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David Silver of DeepMind raises $1B to build AI that learns without human data (techcrunch.com via hn)
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion to join the race for novel AI models that could outperform…
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Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious (www.404media.co via hn)
A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious. That conclusion appears to conflict with the n…
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Vision banana!!!! (www.reddit.com)
Simple post by google: https://deepmind.google/research/publications/240658/ But this seems to explain it better: https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/25/google-deepmind-introduces-vision-banana-an-instruction-tuned-image-generator-that-be…
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The Special Bro Fallacy: A Refutation of Substrate Exceptionalism (www.reddit.com)
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First OpenAI and now Anthropic (Anthropic already had a large presence). Deepmind was always in London.
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Google DeepMind at NeurIPS 2024 (deepmind.google)