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Google confirmed on 4 November 2026 that it offers voluntary buyouts in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland; AI and cloud teams and India are excluded.

Google DeepMind unveiled Genie 4 on October 27, 2026, a world model that builds interactive scenes with sound and lets users change them by text.

Sundar Pichai said on 20 October 2026 that Google Cloud is forgoing short-term revenue so DeepMind's AI work gets first call on scarce computing power.

Britain announced a £100 million AI Biosecurity Lab on October 23, 2026, with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind as partners, to track biological threats.

Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis now expects AGI in two to three years, down from three to five, according to a profile published on 21 October 2026, while warning safety is lagging.

A Google DeepMind paper of October 15, 2026 says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon unaided in 27 hours, on Easy, in one run.

Google said on October 14, 2026 it will give up to 200 European researchers, picked by the EU's RAISE scheme, access to its science AI models and $3 million in credits.