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Thursday, 6 August 2026

Expanded Collaboration to Boost Critical AI Governance Data and Tracking Tool

CSET Georgetown 3 weeks ago 53 ● 74 sources

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology is expanding AGORA, its publicly available database of AI laws and regulations, through new partnerships with MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and continued collaboration with Purdue University. AGORA currently contains over 1,000 AI-related laws, regulations, and standards collected since its 2024 launch and has been used by researchers, policymakers, and journalists globally. The expanded team will accelerate document sourcing, improve processing speed, and enhance the tool's usability to serve as a more comprehensive resource for AI governance research and policy decisions.

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[AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM???

Latent Space 3 weeks ago 19 ● 17 sources

Four senior DeepMind researchers—Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le—departed to found Discovery Loop, a startup focused on automating machine learning and scientific research, while Demis Hassabis stepped back to Chair and Chief Scientist and Koray Kavukcuoglu became SVP of Google DeepMind. Discovery Loop raised seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Doerr Capital, and Alphabet at an undisclosed amount. The departures signal a shift in AI focus toward automated science and raise questions about DeepMind's strategic direction amid a six-month gap since the last Gemini Pro update.

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