Morning Edition · Monday, June 29, 2026
Google Makes Its AI Coding Team Permanent and Pushes Into Midtraining
DeepMind is broadening a months-old coding effort to work between pretraining and post-training as it tries to match Anthropic in coding.
Google is turning the AI coding "strike team" it created about two months ago into a permanent structure and expanding its remit beyond coding tools and agents into midtraining, the stage that sits after a model's broad initial pretraining…
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