Introducing the DeepMind Institute — DeepMind Institute DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to spur interdisciplinary research and debate on safely developing AGI, its benefits, and societal impa
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A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D) L: https:// kolja.rs/algorithm-d/ C: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9286258 posted on 2026.08.13 at 10:11:27 (c=1, p=7)
On 2026-09-17, Google DeepMind launched a new institute to conduct public discussions on artificial general intelligence (AGI) questions and surface differing viewpoints on the technology.
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DeepMind is hiring a gameplay engineer in London. They have also hired an excellent narrative designer.
DeepMind Paper: Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement Through Evolving Worlds. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds.
British AI lab Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, released Faraday on August 22, 2026, an AI agent capable of replicating scientific research papers—a capability claimed to outperform systems from Anthropic and OpenAI and potentially advance innovation.
Google has discontinued its AlphaFold project, the Nobel Prize-winning AI system for protein structure prediction developed by DeepMind. The shutdown reflects Google's strategic pivot toward focusing resources on its Gemini AI platform.
On September 17, 2026, Emulate, a UK artificial-intelligence startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, was reported to be in talks to raise $700 million in a seed round. The funding exemplifies investor interest in AI spinoffs from major tech labs.
DeepMind released SIMA 2 by August 26, 2026, a game-playing AI agent that operates without SDK or engine API hooks, using only screen input, mouse, and keyboard interaction like a human player. The constraint represented a significant architectural design choice.
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How to build an effective and sustainable data model for retrieval-augmented generation. https://www.
The AI sector continued rapid expansion through September 2026, with Bloomberg reporting a $6 trillion revenue target needed by 2031 to justify data center investments. Women comprised only 26% of AI company hires according to LinkedIn research; concerns about AI agent safety were discussed in a White House meeting involving President Trump and tech executives on 2026-09-28.
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