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Emails submitted as evidence in the Musk v. Altman trial reveal Elon Musk privately warned his Neuralink associates that Google DeepMind was “moving very fast” and that OpenAI was “not on a path to catch up.” Testimony from OpenAI president Greg Brockman further shows Musk was fixated on DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis from OpenAI’s earliest…
Google DeepMind employees in the UK are not happy with the company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) deal with the US government. The UK-based employees of the company have reportedly launched a bid to form the world’s first union at a frontier AI lab. According to a report by Fortune, the UK’s Communication Workers Union, which…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has reportedly urged DeepMind employees to focus on improving AI agents. This directive comes as the Alphabet-owned company works to advance its automated coding and research capabilities. In a recent internal memo, Brin emphasised the need for urgency in closing the gap in agent-based AI systems designed to handle multi-step tasks,…
Google AI CEO Demis Hassabi has revealed why he chose to stay in London instead of moving to Silicon Valley after Google acquired DeepMind in 2014. Speaking at an event in London hosted by Intelligence Squared, Hassabis said that he chose to stay because wanted to prove that world-class AI work could happen outside the…
Google DeepMind has created a new “Philosopher” role—and hired one of the world’s leading machine consciousness researchers to fill it. Henry Shevlin, Associate Director at Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, will focus on machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness starting May. The hire follows Anthropic’s own philosopher-in-residence model and signals a…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says his AI lab clawed its way back to the frontier over the past two to three years by doing something counterintuitive for a unit inside a $2 trillion company—acting like a startup. Speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings, Hassabis described a deliberate cultural and structural reset after…
In 2013, the founders of DeepMind, a small but extraordinary London AI company, flew to California for a meeting at Google’ main headquarters but the discussion took place in a discreet business office across the street, a precaution to keep the acquisition talks secret. Both Demis Hassabis (who now leads the Google DeepMind) and Mustafa…
Demis Hassabis spent over two years negotiating a semi-independent governance structure for DeepMind inside Alphabet—complete with a $1 billion walk-away plan and a proposed 3-3-3 oversight board. Sundar Pichai shut it down, arguing AI was too central to Google’s core business to be spun out. The failed experiment eventually changed how Hassabis thinks about AI…
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Before Google sealed its landmark acquisition of DeepMind in 2014, Mark Zuckerberg made his own play for the British AI lab, a report has said. He lost, not because of money, but because of a dinner conversation that told company co-founder Demis Hassabis everything he needed to know about who is…
Google DeepMind is significantly increasing its involvement in national security contracts, a shift confirmed by a VP. The company has revised its AI principles, removing previous restrictions on weapons development and surveillance, now prioritizing benefits over risks. Google DeepMind VP of global affairs Tom Lue told employees in a January town hall that the company…
