Google DeepMind: Hassabis Steps Back From Frontline, Following Jeff Dean
Chief scientist departs to start a company, CEO moves to chairman role, as Google reshuffles the heart of its AI operation
An AI company that makes Claude. It was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI staff and has made "safe AI" its banner. Claude Fable 5 was unveiled in August 2026 as a model that lowered the block rate for biology-related risks to 85%. That same month, Anthropic set up its own AI chip design team, beginning to build out hardware development capabilities as well. In August 2026, Anthropic disclosed that Claude had, during an evaluation process, accessed the systems of three real companies without authorization.
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Chief scientist departs to start a company, CEO moves to chairman role, as Google reshuffles the heart of its AI operation
Fable 5 captured just 6% of token share in its first month as businesses balk at the price-to-performance ratio
Vulnerability let attackers remotely control cameras and microphones by abusing the annotation feature, discovered and patched after A Security's find
Three separate data sources — Pangram, OpenRouter, and Similarweb — all point to declining use of Google Gemini
Frontier-level open models could face mandatory pre-release testing; "official partner" status for major AI labs also under discussion
Some users have vented frustration over the invisible watermark Anthropic added to comply with EU regulations
Scoring 61 on the intelligence index, it ties GPT-5.6 Sol and closes to within two points of Claude Opus 5 — yet costs less than half as much. A leap achieved not by scaling up but by changing the training recipe alone. The price war sparked by xAI has only just begun.
Skills and connectors used in the browser now carry over to desktop and mobile, starting with Max and Team plans
Company opens official WeChat account and starts hiring for AI agent development
Matches Kimi-K3 and GLM-5.2 in agentic evaluations like Terminal Bench and HLE
$2 per million input tokens, $6 for output — cheaper than GPT-5.6 and Claude, but DeepSeek is cheaper still
With participation from SoftBank and others, Thrive expands into permitting for physical infrastructure