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DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

April 28, 2026
Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion to join the race for novel AI models that could outperform large language models. According to its newly launched site, Ineffable aims to create a “superlearner” capable of discovering knowledge and skills…
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

April 27, 2026
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports. The Alphabet subsidiary is committing to invest $10 billion now, at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with another $30 billion to follow if Anthropic hits certain performance targets, according to Anthropic. The promise of investment comes after Anthropic…
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AI galaxy hunters are adding to the global GPU crunch

April 24, 2026
NASA announced that it will launch the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope into orbit in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule. The new space telescope is expected to deliver 20,000 terabytes of data to astronomers over the course of its life. That will add to 57 gigabytes of breath-taking imagery downlinked daily from the James Webb Space Telescope, which began its work in 2021, and the…
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AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This startup wants to figure out which ones matter.

April 23, 2026
AI’s biggest impact in science is Google DeepMind’s use of a deep learning model to predict the complex structures of proteins – the molecules that drive virtually every process in living cells.But as AI models continue to spit out more candidates for potential treatments, there’s an emerging bottleneck: actually characterizing all those candidates in practice, for testing…
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