Google Deepmind hackathon to pit meatbags v machines
… Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define it If a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence AGI , how would we even know? …
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Everyone agrees AI will hurt elections, relationships
… According to the 2026 AI Index Report PDF , from Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence HAI , "Responsible AI is not keeping pace with AI capability, with safety benchmarks lagging and incidents rising sharply." Documented AI incidents – defined as "harms or near… …
Memory-makers' shares are down. Don't blame Google
… Some have linked the change in market sentiment to a technology Google revealed last week called TurboQuant that the company’s researchers describe as “a compression algorithm that optimally addresses the challenge of memory overhead in vector quantization” – one of the most memory-hungry parts of … …
How AI is boosting gender equality high-performance racing
… A collaboration between Formula E, the premier all-electric racing series, and Google Cloud, its Principal Artificial Intelligence Partner, is showing what's possible. …
France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
… American entities Meta, Intel, and Red Hat take the top three spots, Google is number four, AMD is ninth and Oracle America Inc rounds out the top 10. …
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI
… Fast-forward to 2014, when two engineers mounted the stage at Google I/O and introduced Google Cardboard : 50 cents' worth of folded pizza boxes and plastic lenses turning any reasonably capable smartphone into a full-blown VR headset. …
Lightning-fast exploits mean patch fast, says Cisco Talos
… Team Talos published its year in review on Monday, describing 2025 as a year of pace and scale that put sustained pressure on security teams around the world, in part thanks to attackers' use of artificial intelligence. …
Pentagon praises Palantir tech for battlefield strike speed
… Google was the original partner on the project but quit the work in 2018 due to employee protests. …
Chatbots Romeos increase engagement, harm mental health
… In December 2025, dozens of US State Attorneys General wrote PDF to 13 tech companies, including Anthropic, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI, about "serious concerns about the rise in sycophantic and delusional outputs to users emanating from the generative artificial intelligence softwar… …