Google’s Mechanize deal: talent into midtraining
From Mexico: I’m reading Google’s Mechanize talent close — Besiroglu at DeepMind, dozen-plus into midtraining, and that $1.5B+ figure was talks, not a confirmed price.
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DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas maps 9B DNA variants
From Mexico: I’m reading DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas — precomputed effects for ~9 billion single-letter DNA changes, plus one AVI score researchers can actually rank on.
Gemini can hunt video moments now — not chew every frame
Google DeepMind shipped agentic video on Gemini Flash today. It hunts frames, audio, and transcript instead of fixed 1 FPS — vendor claims up to 88% fewer tokens.