Leadership changes may make it harder for Google to recruit top talent and compete with rivals Published Thu, Aug 6, 2026 · 09:31 AM ALPHABET’s Google is losing some of its most prominent artificial intelligence veterans in a seismic overhaul that is casting doubt over leadership of a critical area of growth right as competition

On July 25, Jeff Dean spoke to 6,000 would-be founders at Y Combinator’s Startup School at San Francisco’s Chase Center. Dean is a legendary engineer at Google. He is cofounder of Google Brain, chief scientist of Google DeepMind and Google Research, and technical colead on the company’s flagship AI model Gemini. With his frequent collaborator

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Jeff Dean leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop

Summary: Researchers introduced EMF-dVAE (Efficient Multimodal Fusion with a discrete Variational Autoencoder). Inspired by the selective attention mechanisms of the human brain, the AI framework filters out redundant visual frames in video streams to focus strictly on the most informative moments. Key Facts 65% Reduction in Processing Time: EMF-dVAE reduced the average processing time for

Bentham Science has announced the launch of five new peer‑reviewed journals designed to address rapidly evolving areas of modern science and technology. The new titles include Current Artificial Intelligence, Current Science, Engineering and Technology, Current Surgical Endoscopy, Wireless and Communication Letters, and Current Engineering Letters and Reviews. Together, they provide publishing platforms for researchers, clinicians

People in AI safety circles often talk about "warning shots:” events that indicate more severe threats are on the horizon. Depending on who you ask, there have already been many—Bing’s misanthropic alter-ego Sydney, research showing AIs would blackmail to preserve themselves, AI’s math breakthroughs, Anthropic’s superhuman hacker Mythos—but OpenAI just published something that feels like

The latest episode of the Raspberry Pi Podcast is here, with Ken Okolo and Software Engineering Manager Naushir Patuck exploring the rise of artificial intelligence and how Raspberry Pi is making an impact in edge AI. Naush explains how the growth in AI capability and adoption is being driven by the convergence of big data