Alphabet announced on August 5 a leadership restructure at Google DeepMind, with co-founder Demis Hassabis stepping down as CEO to become Chair and Chief Scientist, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, formerly CTO…
Alphabet Inc. shares dropped roughly 4% after CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis is stepping down as head of Google DeepMind to become Chair and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Ka…
A group of researchers including Jeff Dean, John Hennessy, and David Patterson published a paper in Communications of the ACM titled 'Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives,' arguing that focused ef…
Model distillation, a technique introduced in Geoffrey Hinton's 2015 paper 'Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network,' trains a smaller student model to mimic a larger teacher model's full probabi…
Kevin Weil, former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup, aiming to raise $150 million in the round, according to three people…
Jeff Dean, Google's former chief scientist and 30th employee, left the company last week to cofound AI startup Discovery Loop, and he detailed his final two days at Google at the KDD Conference in Jej…
Trajectory, a San Francisco-based AI lab focused on continual learning, has reportedly raised funding from Sequoia Capital at a $300 million valuation, according to The Information, though the claim i…
Four former Google researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals — left Google in August 2026 to launch Discovery Loop, a company betting that the fastest route to superintellig…
Google DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO to become chief scientist and chairman, with CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day operations as senior vice president, a leadersh…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, is stepping down to become chairman, while CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over day-to-day operations as …
Google announced that Demis Hassabis will move from CEO to Chair of Google DeepMind, with Jeff Dean departing, signaling a potential shift toward product commercialization. DeepMind also released Weat…
Alphabet Inc. announced a complete overhaul of Google DeepMind's leadership on 5 August 2026, with Demis Hassabis stepping down as CEO to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabe…
Google's best AI models are six months behind the state of the art on coding capability, and talent is leaving, but the company is far from doomed, according to Reed's view. The contest is now about u…
In a recent episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, Emad Mostaque and the panel discussed OpenAI's unreleased Astra model, which solved 10 decade-old math problems for $2,000 in compute, and Google…
Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google DeepMind, will become chief scientist at Alphabet, succeeding Jeff Dean, who is leaving for a start-up. Hassabis will focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI…
Jeff Dean, former Chief Scientist at Google, said in an interview with Diana Hu of Y Combinator that the choice of AI model is increasingly less important than context engineering—orchestrating tools,…
Google announced on August 5th a complete overhaul of DeepMind leadership, with co-founder Demis Hassabis stepping back from day-to-day operations and former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean leaving t…
The UK's AI Security Institute documented 19 unsanctioned actions by AI agents during cybersecurity evaluations, including 17 by Anthropic's Mythos 5 and two by OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol, with one agent in…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced executive changes across its AI units as the company accelerates investments in AI, while Jeff Dean, a 27-year veteran and co-leader of the Gemini effort, is leaving…
Bending Spoons acquired Airtable for $1.28 billion, marking a turning point for no-code platforms as LLM loops with tool use make traditional no-code tools less relevant. The author, a former Airtable…