Google's Michel Devoret is one of the 2025 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Google's Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside former Google employee John Martinis, and University of Califor [...]

AI won’t restore an era of rapid growth, says Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides

Nobel Prize-winning economist has poured cold water on the idea that artificial intelligence will haul Western economies back into an era of rapid productivity growth, warning that the fast-growth yea [...]

Nobel Recruitment acquires Berlin’s ARRtist to expand German tech community

European go-to-market search firm Nobel Recruitment has acquired Berlin-based ARRtist, a practitioner-led tech community platform for founders, C-level executives and investors. The deal strengthens N [...]

Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Weeks before that, AlphaGo researcher David [...]

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years

John Jumper, the Google DeepMind vice president who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating AlphaFold, is leaving the company after nearly nine years to join Anthropic. Jumper announced the [...]

The Morning After: Tech’s biggest losers of 2025

Honestly, compiling the biggest losers for Engadget is more fun than talking up the winners. While we reviewed nothing as atrocious as those ill-fated AI assistant gadgets from 2024, AI companies and [...]

Nobel laureates and AI leaders warn the window to prepare for AI's economic impact is closing fast

More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are calling for immediate action in a coordinated statement. The AI tr [...]

Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize winners

The annual award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures. [...]

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

In short: Matei Zaharia, the Berkeley computer science professor and Databricks co-founder who created Apache Spark, has won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his foundational contributions to dist [...]