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A24 is defending its expensive partnership with Google's DeepMind, describing it as collaborative AI research that lets artists shape tools and workflows rather than be handed AI outputs, even as fans and industry figures push back amid broader concerns about generative AI in Hollywood.
Google DeepMind saw two high-profile departures within days—Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper to Anthropic—highlighting a broader industry talent drain as AI labs chase a few pivotal researchers who guide major projects, with leadership, computing power, and IPO prospects shaping where top scientists work.
A24 is launching a joint venture with Google DeepMind to develop AI tools for its filmmakers, with DeepMind investing about $75 million; the collaboration aims to create AI features to support authentic storytelling and potentially feed back into Google's ecosystem, signaling a broader shift toward AI-assisted filmmaking.
CCP Games has rebranded as Fenris Creations after a management buyout from Pearl Abyss, driven in part by branding concerns with the CCP acronym and a desire for renewed independence. Valuation shifts since 2018 illustrate changing market dynamics. Fenris will focus on Eve Online and its spin-offs (Eve Frontier, Vanguard) with a three-year expansion plan, while partnering with Google DeepMind to explore AI-enabled development and governance. The move preserves a shared Eve universe across projects and aims to modernize core systems, improve new-player experience, and pursue open modding and economy ideas within the Fenris umbrella.
Under a voluntary expansion of Biden-era accords, the US Department of Commerce will test AI models from Google (Gemini via DeepMind), Microsoft (Copilot), and xAI (Grok) through the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to evaluate capabilities and security, with CAISI noting it has run about 40 prior evaluations and emphasizing collaborative research and best-practice development for commercial AI systems.
Google DeepMind’s Project Genie is an experimental tool that generates explorable, AI-driven worlds from text and visuals, rendering in real time as you move with restricted 60‑second play sessions at about 720p/24fps. Early demos have produced Mario- and Zelda‑style environments, but it isn’t a full game engine and IP restrictions are emerging. Currently limited to US Google AI Ultra subscribers, the tech raises intriguing questions about AI-assisted world-building versus true game development.
Google’s Project Genie, a Genie 3-powered AI experiment from DeepMind, lets AI Ultra subscribers in the US (18+) build interactive virtual worlds with characters and mini-games at 720p/24fps. While still a research tool, it demonstrates a world-model approach with potential AGI implications and practical uses in autonomous-vehicle testing, education, and game development.
Darren Aronofsky is producing an AI-assisted Revolutionary War series, On This Day… 1776, for Time Studios with backing from Google DeepMind and Salesforce. The show uses AI visuals alongside SAG voice actors to recreate pivotal moments from 1776, releasing weekly on Time’s YouTube channel through the year’s 250th anniversary. Debuts include Washington’s flag-raising in Somerville and Franklin nudging Paine toward his viral Common Sense pamphlet, with subsequent episodes expanding the retelling under the Primordial Soup banner and Time’s distribution.
A prominent Chinese AI researcher, Yao Shunyu, left Anthropic due to its anti-China stance and joined Google DeepMind as a senior research scientist, citing disagreements over the company's characterization of China as an adversarial nation.
A prominent Chinese AI researcher, Yao Shunyu, left Anthropic due to its anti-China stance and joined Google DeepMind, highlighting tensions in the global AI research community related to geopolitical issues.
Google DeepMind's new Gemini Flash 2.5 Image model enables quick and realistic photo edits through simple prompts, allowing users to manipulate images with high fidelity, but raising concerns about potential misuse and the difficulty of detecting AI-generated manipulations.
Google has announced Gemini 2.5 Flash, an advanced AI image editing model that rivals and potentially surpasses existing tools like Photoshop, posing a significant threat to traditional software companies like Adobe. The model is praised for its ability to maintain likeness consistency and make precise edits, and is available for both consumers and professionals, with Adobe integrating Google's model into its own suite to stay competitive.
Google's DeepMind and OpenAI achieved a milestone by developing AI models that solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, marking the first time AI systems crossed the gold-medal threshold in this high-school competition, indicating significant advancements in reasoning capabilities that could soon aid in solving complex research problems.
Vinod Khosla criticized Windsurf's founders for abandoning their team to join Google DeepMind after a failed deal with OpenAI, expressing disapproval of founders leaving their teams behind without sharing proceeds, and emphasizing the importance of trust and loyalty in startup leadership.
Google DeepMind has launched Gemini 2.0, an advanced AI model designed for the "agentic era," featuring enhanced multimodal capabilities, including native image and audio output and tool use. The Gemini 2.0 Flash model is currently available to developers and trusted testers, with broader access planned for early next year. Google is exploring new agentic experiences with projects like Astra, Mariner, and Jules, while emphasizing responsible AI development with a focus on safety and security.