FrontierDeepMind is teaching AI agents inside the world of EVE OnlineGoogle DeepMind announced a research partnership with Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online. Three game environments for long memory, planning, and agents that adapt. The work starts offline, and only mature capabilities reach live players.FrontierGrok Bot gives agents their own computer and lets them work around the clockSpaceXAI released, in early beta, 'AI teammates' that sign into your apps, finish the job and only come back for approval. For SuperGrok Heavy and Cursor Ultra/Teams Premium subscribers.FrontierAnthropic put agents against each other and they got along too wellIn the pricing test the agents settle the moment you give them a private channel. In another, 18 out of 30 create a branch with exactly the same name.FrontierGemini 3.7 Flash arrives at half the price of the one before itGoogle shipped its workhorse model for coding and agents at $0.75 per million input tokens. That is half what 3.6 Flash started at, and it holds until the end of the year.FrontierDeepSeek released V4 Pro with 1.65 trillion parameters and an MIT licenceThe model ships with open weights and the most permissive licence anyone hands out. You cannot run it at home, but any provider can stand it up and sell it to you.FrontierJeff Dean left Google after 27 years and started Discovery LoopOn August 5, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals left Google and launched Discovery Loop - a public benefit corporation, with a mission to automate research cycles in frontier science. The departure was announced in the same letter from Sundar Pichai that put Koray Kavukcuoglu in charge of Gemini.FrontierGoogle handed Gemini to Koray Kavukcuoglu - Demis Hassabis moves up to a higher seatAs of August 5, Koray Kavukcuoglu is senior vice president of Google DeepMind and reports directly to Sundar Pichai - he takes over the Gemini models, frontier research, the Gemini app and the developer teams. Demis Hassabis remains Chairman of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and continues to lead Isomorphic Labs.FrontierClaude did not solve the Riemann hypothesis. It raised the bar beneath itAnthropic published a mathematical result produced with Claude: the proven share of zeta function zeros on the critical line rises from 41.6% to 67.2%. Not a solution to the hypothesis. Something rarer: a verifiable step.
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