Google DeepMind launches Genie 4; Hex raises $100M for AI expansion - Oct 28, 2026

Rollback transforms world models into counterfactual engines, improving robot policy success rates beyond human levels.

HIDRA advances lifelong imitation learning with a novel dual-attention mechanism, enhancing expert selection and adaptation.

Introduces a novel energy-based architecture outperforming GPTs, enhancing foundational language modeling.

Introduces skill adaptation for LLMs, enhancing harness self-evolution by aligning skills with model capabilities.

OmniBrain-0 unifies embodied intelligence tasks with efficient reasoning, reducing overhead while maintaining strong performance.

Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4, which generates interactive, photorealistic environments with real-time audio and physics control using natural language.

Hex raised $100M to expand its AI capabilities.

Police are now using AI to identify and pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior based on algorithmic assessments.

Anthropic allegedly trained their AI, Claude, using pirated copies of Stanford professors' books according to community discussions.