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427 stories · page 26 of 48Google handed Gemini to Koray Kavukcuoglu - Demis Hassabis moves up to a higher seat
As of August 5, Koray Kavukcuoglu is senior vice president of Google DeepMind and reports directly to Sundar Pichai - he takes over the Gemini models, frontier research, the Gemini app and the developer teams. Demis Hassabis remains Chairman of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and continues to lead Isomorphic Labs.
Read →Claude did not solve the Riemann hypothesis. It raised the bar beneath it
Anthropic published a mathematical result produced with Claude: the proven share of zeta function zeros on the critical line rises from 41.6% to 67.2%. Not a solution to the hypothesis. Something rarer: a verifiable step.
Read →OpenAI hands its cyber models to the defenders, with a gate and a list
The Daybreak Cyber Partner program opens frontier models to companies that guard other people's systems: Accenture, IBM, PwC, NCC Group and others. Access grows, says OpenAI, and the safeguards grow with it.
Read →Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, 30 billion, Apache 2.0
The new model from Meta Superintelligence Labs is multimodal, built for agents and released under the cleanest license there is. Weights on Hugging Face, package on Ollama, zero geographic strings - Europe included.
Read →Mozilla revoked its Firefox signing key after a copy landed in a private repository
The key used to sign Linux packages of Firefox and Thunderbird was revoked on August 10. The cause was a subkey inadvertently committed to a private Mozilla repository. No sign of unauthorised access, and the key was replaced anyway.
Read →Realistic AI renderings of buildings now need a label
Article 50 came into force on August 2 and lawyers say realistic AI visualisations of unbuilt buildings fall under the deepfake definition. Fines reach 15 million euro or 3 per cent of annual turnover.
Read →A horned centaur robot built so it cannot fit through a human door
California's Satyress showed Threehalves: a two-metre teleoperated robot with four legs and tools instead of hands, for work that kills people. Its safety is not in the software but in the geometry.
Read →Qwen released 27 billion under Apache 2.0, with a 2.4 trillion giant next to it
On 3 August we wrote that Alibaba was showing Qwen3.8-Max and promising its weights the following week. The promise has been kept: on 8 August the giant goes up for download, and three days before it, a small 27 billion model under Apache 2.0.
Read →MiniMax released a model that writes a full five-minute song, and handed out the weights
Not a thirty-second clip, but a song with a beginning, a middle and an end that holds its theme all the way through. Underneath sit two language models on different levels, and the big one started life as Qwen3-8B.
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