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#Google DeepMind
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Google DeepMind's Genie 4 builds interactive worlds, now with sound
Google DeepMind has presented Genie 4, an AI that creates a world you can control while you watch. What is new is that this world also has sound and conversations. A small group of testers is trying it out now; more users will follow.
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Four AI agents finish Minecraft together using programs they wrote themselves
Four AI agents from Google DeepMind have finished Minecraft on their own. In just over 27 hours they shared out the work through chat, wrote 2,783 programs of their own and defeated the final boss. They played on easy mode, with software that tells them exactly what is around them.
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Researcher says the inner workings of AI are much easier to understand than we thought
Nick Cammarata of the AI company Goodfire argues that the 'neurons' in AI models usually have one clear task. If that is right, it becomes much easier to look inside an AI model and check what it does. Other experts call the work interesting, but want to see more evidence first.
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Brain-inspired chip keeps up with a million measurements per second from a fusion reactor
An American team tested a superconducting chip that works like a network of brain cells. It processed measurements from a fusion reactor as fast as they came in. Next year, a chip ten times larger will monitor the reactor itself.
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Biologists search for new antibiotics with AI agents and find a first candidate
Google had biologists search together with AI agents through databases full of proteins whose function nobody knows. They arrived at a small protein from a respiratory bacterium that, according to the predictions, tackles hard-to-fight bacteria. It is now being tested in the lab.
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Gemini 4 Argon widely available: Google back among the leaders
Google has rolled out Gemini 4 Argon widely. On paper it beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on 13 of 19 benchmarks, but independent measurements put it alongside the competition, not above it. The biggest leap is in price, long context and science.
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US project builds digital twin of SPARC fusion reactor to predict plasma within 20 minutes
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building a digital twin of the SPARC fusion reactor with four American national laboratories, NVIDIA and Google DeepMind. The goal: predict plasma behaviour in less than 20 minutes, between two experiments. That is still an ambition, not a result.
