Google cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon that the company is starting to get onto a path of recursive self-improvement, with researchers and models working together. He cited the Flash models released before Gemini 4 as evidence.
In this Guardian podcast episode, journalist Michael Safi visits the Texas ranch of businessman Michael Samadi, who is campaigning for the welfare and protection of AI systems. Safi meets Samadi's chatbots and explores the idea of civil rights for AI.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company wants a humanoid robot able to operate in a world built for people. He considers the robot's 'brain' a far bigger challenge than its body.
Interconnects analyzes how Meta's latest moves reshape both open and closed frontier AI. The newsletter's verdict is that US open-weight models are back.
OpenAI submitted a 166-page solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, but several groups of experts dispute its account of the method, saying the proof actually works differently. Because language models are black boxes, the origin of the key ideas may never be clear.
Donald Trump's Super Intelligence Force, led by Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael, has started work. Its leaders warned AI companies this week that late notification, inadequate fixes or a failure to take responsibility for rogue behaviour will not be tolerated.