AI Now Summit 2026

Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting

How much could AI revolutionize the economy?

Staying ahead in the age of AI

Discover how leaders can build AI-ready organizations using clear strategy, training, governance, and accelerated innovation.

Partnering with industry leaders to accelerate AI transformation

Google DeepMind partners with global consultancies to bring the power of frontier AI to organizations around the world.

The Work Now Within Reach

The article titled "The Work Now Within Reach" discusses how increasingly capable and affordable AI technologies can broaden the range of tasks that individuals and businesses can perform. It highlights the potential for AI to enhance productivity and enable more efficient, cost-effective growth. The piece emphasizes the expanding opportunities for leveraging AI to achieve greater work outcomes.

How countries can end the capability overhang

Our latest report reveals stark differences in advanced AI adoption across countries and outlines new initiatives to help nations capture productivity gains from AI.

Introducing AI stories: daily benefits shine a light on bigger opportunities

Sam Altman has written that we are entering the Intelligence Age, a time when AI will help people become dramatically more capable. The biggest problems of today—across science, medicine, education, national defense—will no longer seem intractable, but will in fact be solvable.

From AGI to ASI

arXiv:2606. 12683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the last decade, building human-level artificial general intelligence has moved from far-fetched speculation to being a concrete next-decade target for many of the largest AI organisations.

Strengthening America’s AI leadership with the U.S. National Laboratories

OpenAI’s latest line of reasoning models will be used by nation’s leading scientists to drive scientific breakthroughs.

Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism

The new frontier of AI is developing capable autonomous researchers

The End of AI Exponentiation: Fluttering Inside and Outside AI Bubble

arXiv:2609.05894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The exponentiation of Artificial intelligence (AI) in the recent past has entered a transformative era that has been driven by the growth in large lang...

What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?

The article examines whether increasing automation of AI research and development could trigger an intelligence explosion, compressing years of progress into months. It reviews preliminary evidence suggesting such acceleration is possible, discusses potential benefits and extreme risks—including loss of control over superhuman AI and erosion of checks on power—and calls for urgent policy action. The authors argue that, despite uncertainties, the high stakes demand serious attention and proactive measures.

Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI