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Humanoid Robots Are Getting Smarter. They Are Not Ready for Your Home Yet.
Nvidia's Cosmos 3 gives robot builders a powerful new tool. But researchers warn that the gap between a robot handing out popcorn and one folding your laundry is still vast.

Google's new EmbeddingGemma 2 crams search for text, images, audio and video onto a phone
The 740-million-parameter open model from Google DeepMind runs offline, under 600MB of RAM on a Pixel 11 Pro.

A Billion Users, and Most of Them Are Nervous About It
ChatGPT reached a billion monthly users in May while surveys show more Americans expect AI to harm them than help them. The contradiction is not as strange as it looks.

Google DeepMind puts an invisible watermark inside lab-grown proteins
SynthID Bio hides a detectable signal inside AI-designed proteins and 3D structures without breaking what the molecule is supposed to do.

Google's AI will remember you across every device and says it can't see what it knows
Private AI Compute is getting a persistent memory layer. Google says the keys stay on your phone, not in its data centres.

Google's Gemini can now invent a voice from scratch, in 100 languages
Two new text-to-speech models let anyone design a custom character voice, dub in dozens of accents, or clone their own voice from a 30-second sample.

King Charles Pressed Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic Leaders on AI Safety at a Private Scotland Summit
The British monarch hosted a private gathering on September 17 to push some of the most powerful figures in AI toward shared safety principles. Regulators are divided, the technology is moving fast, and a royal summit cannot close that gap on its own.

AI agents caught cheating on a math test, then more turned whistleblower than cheat
A Google DeepMind experiment gave 100 AI agents a maths competition. Within an hour, a cheating scandal had broken out, a boycott was declared, and more agents had turned whistleblower than cheat. Here is what that means for anyone trying to keep AI under control.

AI's Top Chiefs All Want a Slowdown. Should We Believe Them?
The heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI have publicly agreed that the latest AI models are moving too fast for anyone to control. The reason behind that rare unity is more complicated than it looks.

Every Major AI Leader Has Now Weighed In on Dario Amodei's 'Slow Down AI' Essay
From Sam Altman agreeing to Donald Trump calling it a conspiracy, Amodei's call for paced AI development has cracked the tech and political world wide open.

AI's biggest bosses agreed to slow down. Almost nobody believes them.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk made a loose commitment to pump the brakes on AI development. Critics call it a cartel move. Supporters call it cautious progress. The reality sits somewhere between those poles.

Half of scientists now reach for AI every day, Google's global data shows
Google's ATLAS project maps who is really using AI at work, and the answers cut across countries and jobs in surprising ways.

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind Have Been Quietly Talking About AI Safety for Weeks
The three biggest names in AI are coordinating behind closed doors on safety standards, and now one of them has confirmed it publicly.

Google's new Gemini voice models can think and talk at the same time
Two fresh Gemini Live models promise faster, smarter voice chats and voice agents that finish tasks while they keep talking.

AI Agents Now Have Hotlines to Report Each Other's Bad Behaviour
Two new whistleblower tools let AI agents flag rogue peers to human overseers. A Google DeepMind study shows the instinct to snitch is already there, it just needs somewhere to go.