If you reach a point where progress has outstripped the ability to make the systems safe, would you take a pause?I don't think today's systems are posing any...
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says that reaching artificial general intelligence or AGI—a fuzzy term typically used to describe machines with human-like cleverness—will mean honing some of...
In the high-stakes race for AI dominance, Google’s DeepMind division is tightening its grip on talent, forcing some employees to sit out of the industry for up to...
Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro, the first in its Gemini 2.5 family. This multimodal reasoning model outperforms competitors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek in key benchmarks related...
In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of today’s best AI is that, for now, it...
What a great idea I had for the first Plaintext of 2025. After following the frantic competition between OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to churn out brainier and...