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Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, IBM named Gordon Bell finalists | IBM Quantum Computing Blog Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, IBM named Gordon Bell finalists Finalist recognition for one of supercomputing’s top prizes arrives as researchers report new progress in automated quantum-HPC chemistry workflows. Cleveland Clinic, RIKEN, and IBM were named 2026 ACM Gordon Bell Prize finalists for breakthrough quantum-HPC chemistry research.

What Is AI Inference? Meaning, Benefits & How It Works The word “inference,” in English, means a conclusion drawn through reasoning and evidence. Similarly, AI inference relates to an AI model’s ability to infer, or extrapolate, conclusions in new situations, using information gained from training, response, and the fine tuning process.

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company, three years after the company's launch.

Top NewsGPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI EraRelated:OpenAI begins rolling out Astra model after warning of its advanced…

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Transfer learning for genomic prediction in underrepresented populations Transfer learning for genomic prediction in underrepresented populations Joey Poomarin Phloyphisut, Software Engineer, and Cory McLean, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research We evaluate ways to improve cross-population genetic risk prediction and find that while transfer learning from European cohorts improves prediction in small underrepresented populations, it degrades accuracy once target cohort...

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain Michał Januszewski and Viren Jain, Research Scientists, Google Research We partnered with HHMI Janelia and collaborators in Cambridge, U.K., to publish a complete map of the male fruit fly’s brain and central nervous system, creating the largest brain map to...

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model Our flagship AI weather forecasting model now includes real-time satellite data, hourly refreshes, higher resolution, precise precipitation forecasting, and clean energy variables. It’s now integrated across Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises Today, we’re launching our Fairwind Program, a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our most advanced cyber defense capabilities. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.

We’ve built an AI agent that acts as a secondary expert for a given domain, making deep specialist knowledge readily available and preserved for anyone in an…

Mapping global methane emissions from space with deep learning Mapping global methane emissions from space with deep learning Vishal Batchu, Research Engineer, and Michelangelo Conserva, Research Scientist, Google Research The Methane Analysis and Plume Localization with EMIT model is a deep-learning framework that automates the detection, enhancement quantification, and source estimation of methane plumes globally, turning raw satellite data into...

At a glance The Flash family extends GigaPath and GigaTIME with dramatically improved efficiency, making large-scale pathology research more accessible and…

IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2—more circuits, faster | IBM Quantum Computing Blog IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2—more circuits, faster High-speed, independent qubit reset boosts circuit throughput 25x over Heron while enabling accurate computations on circuits with 7,500+ gates. IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2 uses independent, high-speed qubit reset to execute 100,000+ circuits per second—up to 25x higher circuit throughput than IBM Quantum Heron.

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One University of Chicago curriculum is removing AI-assisted writing from the classroom. Alpha School is expanding a model that puts adaptive software at the center of the academic day.

Total funding reaches $232M under new leadership with investor group comprised of Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music…

MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models.

Over the past few weeks, we have announced several important steps to expand sovereign AI by increasing access to local infrastructure capacity. Earlier this summer, we announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft to increase compute capacity in Europe.

At a glance Skala 1.1 demonstrates the continuously improving nature of Microsoft Research’s deep-learning DFT approach: trained on 2.5× more data than…

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