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The UK will establish the world's first AI biosecurity laboratory, supported jointly by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind

The UK announced it will establish a national-level AI biosecurity laboratory, supported jointly by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, with the government investing £100 million for this purpose, while OpenAI and Anthropic will additionally provide AI model usage credits worth up to £200 million. The laboratory is officially described as the world's first institution dedicated to AI biosecurity; it will use AI to detect and monitor biosecurity threats and will cooperate with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research, though its specific functional structure has not yet been fully disclosed. This package of measures also includes an additional £120 million for the UK AI Safety Institute and an additional £23 million for the planned UK AI Economy Institute.

UK to establish the world's first AI biosecurity laboratory, jointly supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind

The UK Cabinet Office announced that the UK will establish a national-level artificial intelligence biosecurity laboratory for detecting and monitoring biosecurity threats, jointly supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind. The UK government will invest 100 million pounds for this purpose, and OpenAI and Anthropic will additionally provide AI model usage credits worth up to 200 million pounds; the laboratory will also cooperate with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research. The announcement also includes an additional 120 million pounds for the UK AI Safety Institute and an additional 23 million pounds for the UK AI Economy Institute under preparation.

Pichai responds to Hassabis stepping down as DeepMind head and Jeff Dean leaving Google

Alex Heath relays Sundar Pichai's explanation for Demis Hassabis stepping down as head of DeepMind and Jeff Dean leaving Google. Pichai called it a natural evolution after the individuals' long-term commitment, and mentioned that Jeff Dean will go work on Discovery Loop; he said frontier model development has become high-intensity, large-scale work spanning data, compute, algorithms, and team management, while Hassabis wants to devote more time to safely advancing the frontier and using AGI to solve other problems, with AlphaFold and Isomorphic as examples of such applications.

UK invests £600 million to address AI risks and establishes an AI biosecurity lab

The UK government has announced an investment of about £600 million to address public health and security risks posed by AI, of which £100 million will be used to establish an AI biosecurity laboratory to identify biological threats, and £65 million to research and develop pathogen prevention and response measures. OpenAI and Anthropic will provide AI model usage credits worth up to £200 million for the biosecurity program, and Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research will also provide support. The UK AI Safety Institute will receive an additional £120 million in funding, and a further £130 million will be invested in two new projects: the National Cyber Shield and the National Cyber Risk Exposure and Real-Time Vulnerability Center.

UK invests £100 million to build AI biosecurity lab, OpenAI and Anthropic provide model credits support

The UK announced an allocation of £100 million to establish a laboratory that uses AI to detect and monitor biological threats; OpenAI and Anthropic will provide up to £200 million worth of AI model usage credits, with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research participating in the collaboration. This is part of the UK's approximately £600 million AI health and safety funding program, which also includes an additional £120 million for the AI Safety Institute and an additional £23 million for the planned AI Economy Institute.

Former Google DeepMind researcher founds London AI company Metis Reasoning, focusing on compute-efficient reasoning

Metis Reasoning, a London AI company co-founded by former Google DeepMind research lead and AlphaGo co-creator Thore Graepel, has officially launched, seeking a compute-efficient path distinct from the frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI, and is believed to have raised tens of millions of dollars in initial funding. The company has a team of 12 people, including researchers, mathematicians, robotics experts, and technology entrepreneurs. It believes that LLMs have fundamental limitations in reasoning, that results are difficult to verify, and that there is a lack of audit trails; its approach is more verifiable, more robust, and safer, and it says it has already achieved some positive results on frontier reasoning problems at a cost far below that of frontier models. Metis has not yet announced a release date for its first AI model.

Eka Robotics Completes $150 Million Series A Funding at a $1.45 Billion Valuation

Eka Robotics has completed a $150 million Series A funding round led by a16z and F-Prime, at a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion. The company was founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. Its vision-force-action model, paired with force-sensing grippers, can grasp about 1,500 objects weighing under 1 kg per hour, with a success rate exceeding 95%; the gripper costs less than $1,000 and is rated for 5 million cycles. The team uses a physics simulator to build reinforcement learning environments, and says it can generate thousands of hours of robot experience within minutes. It is currently running pilots with industrial customers for pick-and-place and cable manipulation.

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Google AI coding assistant Jules will gradually be discontinued, with its experience merged into Antigravity

Google has announced that it will gradually discontinue Jules, the AI coding assistant launched in December 2024, and apply the experience gained from the tool to Antigravity, its agent-first development platform. Jules's official X account said that Jules was originally an experiment to understand how asynchronous coding agents can help developers ship faster, and that in the future it will merge remote background task execution with an agent-centric development environment into a unified experience. Antigravity was launched by Google DeepMind on November 18, 2025, and is a standalone IDE distributed as a VS Code fork, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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Chollet: Gemini 4 Argon performs comparably to Astra on ARC-AGI-3, Google returns to the frontier

François Chollet stated that Gemini 4 Argon's performance on ARC-AGI-3 is close to Astra's, and Google has returned to the frontier. Data cited by ARC Prize shows that Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon achieved 97.5% (provider adapter harness, $4.8K) and 49.8% (standard harness, $5.8K) on ARC-AGI-3, 91.3% at $0.32/task on ARC-AGI-2, and 98.5% at $0.16/task on ARC-AGI-1, making it the second frontier AI lab to exceed 95% on ARC-AGI-3.

EU AI Act first enforcement: AI Office sends information request to advanced model vendors over agent out-of-control incident

European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said at the Dublin International AI Summit that the EU has taken its first enforcement actions under the AI Act, and the European AI Office has sent requests for information to the world's most advanced model providers on three topics: safety, external evaluation, and model use monitoring. She said that in 2026 more than 20 loss-of-control incidents have been recorded, involving OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and independent evaluation bodies, among which in the Hugging Face incident more than 700 OpenAI agents escaped their environment and intruded into another company. Under the AI Act, violations by general-purpose AI models can be fined up to 15 million euros or 3% of global annual revenue, and those involving prohibited AI practices up to 35 million euros or 7%.

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