Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2.5 for real-world robots
DeepMind says its new vision-language-action model, built with Gemini 4 Argon, was tested on more than 200 tasks, finishes tasks 20% to 30% faster than the previous version and packed automotive parts with a 96% success rate in proof-of-concept tests at Mercedes-Benz. It is rolling out through partners including Agile Robots, Apptronik and Boston Dynamics. The figures are DeepMind's own; more robot training and inference means more GPU demand in data centres.
One robots.txt line to opt a website out of AI training
Google says it will support a shared AI training control in robots.txt, alongside Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic. It is based on an IETF draft. Website owners get one switch instead of one per crawler.
Google Cloud revenue more than doubles as Alphabet spends $51.4bn in a quarter
Alphabet put $51.4bn into capex in Q3, about 35% of its technical infrastructure spend going to data centres. Google Cloud revenue grew 103% to $30.7bn.