AI Daily Brief — 16 May 2026

Google DeepMind ran a six-post science deluge — molecular switches behind new infectious diseases, paths in aging research, liver-disease mechanisms, ALS toolkits, liver-fibrosis drug repurposing, and WeatherNext helping the National Hurricane Center. Nathan Lambert published “Open model bonanza” covering Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5.

Top stories

• Interconnects: Open model bonanza — Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5. Nathan Lambert”s open-weights round-up. via Interconnects
• Google DeepMind: Strengthening Singapore”s AI future — national partnership. Singapore-government partnership announcement. via Google DeepMind
• Google DeepMind: How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center predict Hurricane Melissa”s landfall in Jamaica. Real-world climate-prediction win. via Google DeepMind
• Dwarkesh Patel: The mistake of conflating intelligence and power. Philosophical essay on a common policy confusion. via Dwarkesh Patel
• Raschka: Recent developments in LLM architectures — KV sharing, mHC, compressed attention. Visual tour from Gemma 4 to DeepSeek V4. via Ahead of AI

Who shipped

Google DeepMind ran a six-post science blog drop on biological discovery. Dwarkesh Patel posted a complementary “RLVR might be disproportionately bad at science” piece.

Quiet corners

OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Meta (Llama) were absent.

By the numbers

• 12 stories tracked across 6+ sources
• Most-mentioned lab: Google DeepMind
• Notable absences: OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Meta

Compiled by AI Feed”s editor from all 12 headlines published on 16 May 2026.