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Google DeepMind leadership shifts with Demis Hassabis as Chair → Demis Hassabis is becoming Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. This lets him focus on long-term AGI strategy and scientific discovery including work at Isomorphic Labs. Koray Kavukcuoglu steps up as SVP of Google DeepMind leading model development and research. Read more here →
OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with stronger GPT-5.6 models → GPT-5.6 Sol now powers both Instant and deep reasoning for Plus and Pro users. Free and Go users get unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna starting tomorrow. Paid users also gain a slider to control reasoning effort on each response. Read more here →
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max as its most capable model → The 2.4 trillion parameter model sets a new bar for coding and autonomous work. It can handle multi-day self-evolving development and long-horizon tasks across many professions. Open weights for Qwen3.8-Max and a 27B version are coming next week. Read more here →
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Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to start new company → The longtime Google scientist and DeepMind leader is departing after helping build many of the company’s most used products. He is founding DiscoLoop AI with longtime colleagues Sanjay Ghemawat Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. Read more here →
Safe Superintelligence reportedly planning first model launch in August → Ilya Sutskever’s lab is said to be preparing to release its highly anticipated first model this month. The report comes from investor Gavin Baker in a recent interview. Expectations are high given the company’s singular focus on safe superintelligence. Read more here →
Meta launches Muse Code agent and Muse Spark 1.2 → Muse Code is a terminal coding agent that plans writes and validates complex changes across large repositories using persistent subagents. Muse Spark 1.2 improves code generation debugging and long-horizon developer workflows. Both are available now through Meta’s developer platform. Read more here →
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Video → The new multimodal model generates up to 20-second HD clips with native audio. It supports text-to-video image-to-video keyframes and short video continuation. Early evaluations show it outperforming or matching current state-of-the-art models. Read more here →
Cerebras builds high-usage internal knowledge base → Employees ask the system more than 15,000 questions every day. It pulls from Slack code repositories documents and custom sources without forcing data into one place. Hybrid search techniques keep answers relevant and up to date across the company. Read more here →
