automation
Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to build an AI that runs the experiments itself News
Alphabet announced on August 5 that Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le are leaving to found Discovery Loop, a startup betting that thousands of parallel automated experiments beat the human research loop, while Demis Hassabis hands off day-to-day control of Google DeepMind.
AI is learning a 'dark art' that even expert engineers struggle with News
Designing radio-frequency chips is so reliant on hard-won physical intuition that engineers call it a dark art - and now AI is starting to do it, a sign the automation frontier is moving into deep specialist craft.
Google's fast model can now use a computer by itself News
Gemini 3.5 Flash gained built-in 'computer use,' letting one model click, type, and act across browsers, phones, and desktops.
An open-source 'AI crew' that turns a coding assistant into a video studio News
A project called OpenMontage shot to the top of GitHub in a day, claiming to be the first open-source system that lets AI agents handle a whole video production from script to final cut.
A robot that runs its own experiments — and sometimes fails when it matters News
NVIDIA researchers gave AI coding agents full control of a physical robot lab — including automated reset and vision-based success checking. One agent inserted a graphics card into a motherboard. The headline success rate is real but requires a close read.
Grok Bot Tool
Early-beta desktop and iOS agents from xAI that sign into your own accounts, keep their own computer, run saved routines on a schedule, and work in parallel while your laptop is closed.
Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use Tool
Google's fast model can now operate a browser, phone, or desktop directly as a built-in tool, with optional confirm-before-acting and auto-stop-on-attack safeguards for building automation agents.