Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit
Researchers have raised concerns about the change's effect on their independence and ability to detect threats from newest models
Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit
Researchers have raised concerns about the change's effect on their independence and ability to detect threats from newest models
Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO
Demis Hassabis discussed the proposed new entity with heads of other AI labs and Trump administration officials including Scott Bessent
Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google
Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google
Google co-founder Sergey Brin in recent months has urged key AI staff to go all in on the company's Gemini model as parent Alphabet …
A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research
DeepMind's new boss is set to face intense pressure to close the AI performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.Forums:r/technologyForums:r/technology:Google's new AI boss inherits a race to catch OpenA...
Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity
On August 5, Google announced what appeared to be a corporate version of Nixon's Saturday night massacre. Demis Hassabis stepped back from day to day operations at DeepMind.
Despite the “DeepMind mafia” pulling billions into London AI startups, none of Demis Hassabis' former lieutenants is building a homegrown UK frontier AI model
The tech sector is buzzing in Britain. But can it ever be more than a US outpost? Two decades ago, King's Cross was central London's most neglected district.
A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted weekly while developing his AI company sovereign wealth fund proposal
A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her husband, Adam Brown, a top scientist at Google's DeepMind …