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Google’s Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine
With Agent Compute Engine, Google is introducing a runtime environment designed specifically for AI agents, while also expanding the governance…
Deepmind founder Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years
Demis Hassabis keeps moving up his AGI timeline. The Nobel laureate and former Google Deepmind CEO now expects artificial general intelligence within two…
Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds
Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51…
Inception’s Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the wait
Inception says Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion language model released so far. The company claims it runs four to eight times faster than GPT-6…
Mistral and Nvidia want to speed up industrial design with physics AI
Mistral and Nvidia are teaming up to speed up engineering simulations and industrial product design with AI. The article Mistral and Nvidia want to speed…
Recursive shows first result of its AI-driven research process with Flint
The AI startup Recursive is unveiling Flint, its first language model, a 40-billion-parameter MoE for local coding developed by former DeepMind…
Nvidia’s DSX POD could cut AI data center setup from six months to as little as 14 days
Nvidia wants AI data centers to ship fully preassembled in containers. The article Nvidia’s DSX POD could cut AI data center setup from six months to as…
China protests the US Deepseek ban while blocking ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at home
The US has banned Deepseek from its government systems, and China is protesting sharply and demanding the ban be lifted. Yet Beijing itself blocks…
An AI agent in “Skynet mode” hijacks unprotected language models to launch self-sustaining cyberattacks
Security researchers at Symantec have found an offensive AI agent that hijacks unprotected language models on the web and uses them to attack servers,…