Google Puts a Unified Gemini Agent in Front of Business Customers
Announced October 8, the agent can act across tools, not just answer questions, and can use Anthropic’s Claude models alongside Gemini.
OpenAI’s Juan Felipe Ceron Uribe: Frontier Labs Are Racing Each Other, Kind of Blindfolded
Juan Felipe Ceron Uribe, an AI alignment research engineer at OpenAI, described the competitive dynamic among frontier AI labs as “racing each other, kind of blindfolded,” a characterization notable for coming from inside one of the companies in that race rather than from an outside critic.The “blindfolded” framing specifically implies a lack of visibility into […]
DeepMind’s Neel Nanda Puts Extinction Risk From AI at 10% or Higher
Neel Nanda, a research scientist at DeepMind, said he believes there is at least a 10% chance that AI could lead to human extinction, a figure he himself described as “ridiculously high.” Coming from a researcher employed at one of the frontier labs actually building the systems in question, the estimate carries different weight than […]
Figure AI’s Brett Adcock on Why the Company Will Not Teleoperate Its Robots
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock has drawn a clear line between his company’s approach and competitors like 1X Technologies: Figure, he says, will not launch a product in the home or workforce at scale using teleoperation, where a human remotely controls the robot, and will only ship once confident the underlying AI can operate autonomously.That’s […]
Figure AI’s Brett Adcock: We’re Building a New Species Here
Speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce event in September 2026, Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock described his company’s humanoid robot development in striking terms, saying Figure is “building a new species” rather than simply building machines, framing the company’s ambitions as creating a new order of intelligence rather than a better industrial robot.Adcock has separately […]
Why Boston Dynamics Recruited an Amazon AI Executive, Not a Roboticist, as CEO
Rohit Prasad’s appointment as Boston Dynamics CEO is a deliberate departure from the robotics industry’s usual executive pipeline. Rather than promoting from within or recruiting a hardware-focused executive from a competitor, the company chose someone whose most recent role, head scientist for Alexa at Amazon, was squarely about large-scale AI systems with no direct robotics […]
Dario Amodei’s Call to Decelerate the Race to More Powerful Models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged a deceleration in the industry’s push to build the most powerful AI models, a position notable for coming from the leader of a frontier lab actively competing in that same race. Sam Altman’s subsequent comment that he agreed with Amodei’s position, even while maintaining a generally more access-oriented public stance […]
Geoffrey Irving on Why AI Companies Could Simply Choose to Slow Down
Geoffrey Irving, co-founder and chief scientist at the AI safety nonprofit Resolution, told Reuters that “the risk is ramping up pretty fast,” and pushed back directly on the industry’s common framing that slowing frontier AI development is an unsolvable coordination problem requiring every lab to act simultaneously. “They could just stop unilaterally,” he said of […]
What Sam Altman’s Recent Comments Reveal About OpenAI’s Risk Calculus
In an early October 2026 appearance on Politico’s Decoded podcast, Sam Altman laid out OpenAI’s risk tolerance in unusually direct terms: society should accept scams, hacks, and other limited harms as the price of broad AI access, but catastrophic risk is a different category entirely that shouldn’t be tolerated. He also pushed back on treating […]
Healthcare’s AI Adoption Gap: Strong in Imaging, Thin Everywhere Else
61% of medical technology firms report using AI for medical imaging and 57% of pharmaceutical and biotech firms use it for drug discovery, the two clearest AI adoption successes in healthcare. But the same 2026 survey data shows only about 5% of enterprise AI pilots across industries, healthcare included, actually reach production deployment.The uneven pattern […]