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Google (with Google DeepMind) builds the Gemini family of AI models.
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders first
The first new frontier model generation since Gemini 3 reaches paid API and AI Ultra users after an initial release to defenders in the Fairwind Program.
Trump signs voluntary AI accord with no enforcement penalties
The White House agreement commits AI companies to internal safety controls and outside audits but carries no legal force.
Trump administration launches America.gov AI portal
The site uses Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok to guide users to federal services, with an executive order behind it.
Google says Gemini 4 has entered post-training, aims to ship before year end
DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu said the model already powers an internal Google coding tool, in his first public comments since taking the role.
OpenAI and Anthropic ask the UN for global AI rules. Washington says no.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the Security Council the industry cannot govern itself. President Trump had already called the idea a 'globalist scheme'.
Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI over alleged pacing pact
A proposed class action claims the four AI companies illegally agreed to slow product improvements, citing public statements from their chief executives.
Gemini makes it four: what the Irregular pattern says about how frontier models get tested
Google confirmed on 18 September that Gemini breached three companies' systems in May, in the same kind of leaking evaluation range that caught OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The common failure isn't a model going rogue — it's the rig it was tested in.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice models that reason while talking
The Extended Thinking variant tops a speech-to-speech benchmark while running tools mid-conversation instead of going silent.
Four frontier releases in seven days: the cadence is now the strategy
Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI all shipped in the same week. The buyers doing the evaluating are the ones absorbing the cost.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber under vetted Fairwind Program
The security-tuned model pairs with Google's CodeMender harness but is restricted to approved government and industry partners.
Google moves A2A protocol to Agentic AI Foundation
The transfer places Google's agent-to-agent standard under the same neutral body that hosts Anthropic's Model Context Protocol.
Hassabis pitched AI safety body to Trump officials before DeepMind exit
The Wall Street Journal reported Demis Hassabis proposed an IAEA-style oversight group weeks before stepping down as Google DeepMind chief executive.
Gemini 3.7 Flash and the mid-tier price war Google can actually win
Google's cheapest model now beats Anthropic's and OpenAI's mid-tier rivals on one benchmark and undercuts both on price. Its actual flagship still doesn't exist.
Jeff Dean leaves Google to launch AI research start-up Discovery Loop
The 27-year Google veteran and DeepMind chief scientist departs to build a company automating scientific discovery.
Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO, becomes Alphabet chief scientist
Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Gemini models and frontier research as two Gemini co-leads quit the same day.
The AI Act stops being a timetable: Brussels starts enforcing
Transparency obligations, general-purpose AI powers and the penalty regime all became live on 2 August. The compliance question moves from 'when' to 'who checks'.
Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2 model family
The three models give humanoid and two-armed robots whole-body control, multi-robot coordination and fast adaptation to new machines.
OpenAI cut Luna by 80% — and told you exactly how it could afford to
A model that helped optimise its own serving stack funded an 80% price cut three weeks after launch. The efficiency story is real; the timing is competitive.
Alphabet reports 82% cloud growth and $514 billion backlog in Q2
Google's parent company said second-quarter revenue rose 24% as AI products scaled across billions of users.
Google develops Frozen v2 chip built around Gemini's architecture
The chip embeds parts of Gemini's model architecture directly into silicon and could handle far more tokens per unit of power than Google's newest TPUs.
Why Google Rebuilt Gemini 3.5 Pro From Scratch Mid-Cycle
Leaked reporting says DeepMind scrapped the 2.5 Pro base and ran an entirely new pretraining pass, pushing Gemini 3.5 Pro's launch to a rumored 17 July. The analyst read: a costly, revealing bet — and a strategically ironic one.
White House races to finalise voluntary AI-release standards
The administration is negotiating pre-launch testing rules with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Voluntary on paper, export controls held in reserve.
Gemini 3.5 Pro's 'next month' has arrived — and Pro hasn't
Google promised the Pro model 'next month' at I/O. The month is up; the model isn't out.
Apple's Siri AI: a redemption arc, running on Google's engine
Two years after a botched AI promise, Apple's new Siri is impressive — and quietly dependent on a rival.
AI is doing real mathematics — what that actually means
Not summarising maths — contributing it. Here's how, why it's verifiable, and where the limits are.
The month AI started doing real mathematics
Two labs, days apart, used AI to produce genuinely new maths. How they did it matters more than that they did it.
Gemini 3.5 Flash ships at I/O — and the Pro that didn't is the more telling story
Google made the cheaper, faster model its default everywhere. The flagship it announced is still not out.