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Policy2026-06-24 · source-backed
On June 22, DeepMind took its first-ever equity position in a film studio, $75M in A24, in a multiyear partnership to co-develop AI filmmaking tools on Veo, with A24 directors testing inside live productions. Demis Hassabis framed it as building "directly with" artists. The deal drew immediate filmmaker backlash. It's frontier labs shifting from selling generic models to embedding research teams inside a specific creative vertical to shape the workflow from the inside, and the labor reaction is the governance story to watch. When the lab co-owns the studio, "we built this with artists" and "we automated the artists" stop being distinguishable from the outside.
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The pilot puts evaluation inside Confidential Space on Google Cloud's Confidential Computing so Gemini Flash Lite's weights stay private from evaluators while evaluator prompts stay private from Google (DeepMind). Partners are the Singapore AI Safety Institute, OpenMined, AVER...
After consulting the mathematics community, DeepMind proposed classifying AI-assisted math by significance and degree of AI contribution (Google DeepMind). It's an early attempt to set norms for crediting AI's role as labs push models from benchmarks toward open problems. The...
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Published June 18, the roadmap argues alignment training alone can't guarantee control, so agentic systems need structural containment built before more capable models ship. It lists 15 infrastructure-layer defenses: a Supervisor Agent for runtime monitoring, cryptographic sig...
DeepMind's commitment is denominated in tokens and cloud credits rather than cash, an in-kind structure that keeps the spend on Google infrastructure (DeepMind). OpenAI published its own commitment with the Department of Energy and the national labs the same week (OpenAI). Fed...
Google DeepMind shipped computer use as a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash on June 24, collapsing the standalone Oct-2025 computer-use model into the same model you already use for function calling, Search grounding, and Maps. One agent sees a screen, clicks, types, and l...
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