Google DeepMind
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Google DeepMind is Google's AI research division that develops open-weight model families including Gemma 4, a multimodal, agentic model family released under Apache 2.0 license to compete with Chinese open-weights models.
The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive
Google's TPU 8t and 8i variants eliminate data-preparation bottlenecks with custom Axion CPUs, delivering specialized training and inference hardware optimized for world models and agentic AI at scale.
Podcast: How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory
Arizona State University deployed an AI system that scraped faculty lectures without consent to auto-generate lessons, exposing how universities are deploying AI on institutional data with minimal oversight or consent frameworks.
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
AlphaGo's David Silver launches Ineffable Intelligence with $1.1B to build superintelligence via self-learning reinforcement systems, rejecting the industry's LLM scaling consensus as inefficient "fossil fuel" AI.
What I've been thinking about this weekend - More open questions, intelligence vs power, the problem of verification in science, the parallel discovery of Darwinism
Five hyperscalers control 70%+ of global AI compute with most concentrated at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind — raising questions about whether this concentration prioritizes frontier research over empowering ordinary users and risks pricing the masses out of AI entirely.
Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious
DeepMind researcher Alexander Lerchner argues that LLMs are philosophically barred from consciousness by their dependency on human interpretation of outputs—directly challenging CEO narratives about AGI.