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• Tapes Together Strong: The Co-evolution of Computation and Cooperation — Researchers from Google DeepMind and MIT introduce Autopoietic Game Theory: a computational model where cooperation, replication, and their computational costs co-evolve in programs running Z80 machine code — finding that coupling computation capacity to energy budget can make defection self-limiting even in well-mixed populations.
• Discovering Temporal Structure: An Overview of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning — A comprehensive HRL survey by Doina Precup, Marlos Machado and collaborators — updated September 2026 — maps the landscape from classical options theory through LLM-guided temporal abstraction, framing hierarchical structure discovery as a path toward long-horizon general agents.
• Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion — Former Google DeepMind VP of Research Oriol Vinyals argues at Agentic AI Summit 2026 that AI self-improvement is real but won't cause an intelligence explosion — the hard limits are generating novel ideas ('research taste') and reliably evaluating results. He's launching Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le to automate end-to-end scientific research.
• NVIDIA Details BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR): 2.90x Higher Boltz-2 Folding Throughput and 58.5K Residues per GPU-Hour on 8xH100 — NVIDIA's BioNeMo Inference Runtime (BioIR) hits 2.90x higher Boltz-2 folding throughput at 58.5K residues per GPU-hour on 8xH100s — already deployed at production scale to generate 31 million protein-complex predictions for the AlphaFold Database expansion.
• Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk — A former Google DeepMind communications staffer (2018–2022) says the lab banned all external discussion of AI-driven human extinction risk while internally acknowledging alignment was unsolved — researchers were coached to compare concerns to 'Terminator movies' and pivot to healthcare and climate applications instead.
• Deepmind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps every possible DNA change in the human genome — Google DeepMind has precomputed predicted effects for all ~9 billion possible single-letter DNA mutations in the human genome, releasing the 1-petabyte AlphaGenome Atlas — 30x larger than AlphaFold's protein database — alongside a single-number variant impact score that outperforms existing tools on clinically classified noncoding variants.
• Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas With Precomputed Molecular Effect Predictions and AVI Scores for 9 Billion Human DNA Variants — Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes molecular effect predictions and a ranked impact score (AVI) for all 9 billion possible single-nucleotide variants in the human genome — a 1-petabyte dataset 30× larger than AlphaFold Database, free for academic research today.
• AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome — Google DeepMind pre-computed molecular impact predictions for all 9 billion possible single-nucleotide mutations in the human genome — a 1-petabyte dataset 30× larger than AlphaFold — and released it free to academic researchers as AlphaGenome Atlas.
• Google’s Atlas of the human genome could pave the way for new treatments — Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas maps all 9 billion possible single-nucleotide changes in the human genome with molecular-level predictions for each variant—the most comprehensive genomics catalogue yet, now accessible via web portal and Antigravity platform.
• This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected — Danijar Hafner, a former Google DeepMind researcher known for world-model AI, has founded a stealth startup in San Francisco applying model-based reinforcement learning to humanoid robots that can operate in environments never seen during training.