Sir Demis Hassabis, who is the chief executive and and co-founder of London-based artificial intelligence start-up Google DeepMind, received the honour alongside John Jumper, a senior research scientist at the company, and David Baker, of the University of Washington.

The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Sweden.

Britain's Vodafone said on Tuesday it has deepened its strategic partnership with Alphabet's Google in a ten-year, billion dollar plus deal that will bring the U.S. tech giant's new generative AI-powered devices to customers across Europe and Africa.

Appearing at a recent Washington AI summit, Schmidt argued that current climate goals should be abandoned in favor of a no

Eric Schmidt says the world should prioritise investing in artificial intelligence over climate goals that “we’re not going to hit anyways”. He made that bold statement at an AI summit last week. Shmidt served as the chief executive of Google from 2001 to 2011.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes AI will outpace preventative climate change measures. Schmidt said he would rather let AI solve the problem than constrain