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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Steve Wozniak, Prince Harry and 800 others want a ban on AI ‘superintelligence’

More than 800 public figures including Steve Wozniak and Prince Harry, along with AI scientists, former military leaders and CEOs signed a statement demanding a ban on AI work that could lead to super [...]

AI pioneers win the Turing Award, tech’s top prize

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, are the winners of this year’s A.M. Turing Award, the tech world’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. [...]