Demis Hassabis's first love wasn't AI — it was chess. Decades before the Google DeepMind CEO would be co-awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — thanks to helping develop an AI tool that predicted ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Covid-19 sent people home in early 2020, the computer scientist Tom Zahavy rediscovered chess. He had played as a kid and had ...

Samsung is reportedly eyeing Perplexity AI as the default assistant for its Galaxy S26, potentially shifting Google’s Gemini. But this isn’t just a simple deal; it might be Google playing 4D chess.

Google has released a new chess website that puts one fun twist on the game: it uses custom pieces that are created each time by generative AI. The game starts by letting you type in a short ...

Today, Google Doodle marks the final day of the 2024 FIDE World Chess Championship, which has been taking place from November 25 to December 13 at the Equarius Hotel Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore.

Almost a year ago exactly, DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence (AI) division owned by Google parent company Alphabet, made headlines with preprint research ("Mastering Chess and Shogi by ...