{"id":1136896,"date":"2026-08-08T01:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1136896\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:16:18","slug":"googles-ai-shake-up-whats-next-for-demis-hassabis-and-deepmind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1136896\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI shake-up: What\u2019s next for Demis Hassabis and DeepMind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Some of the biggest names on Google\u2019s AI team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/975677\/google-deepmind-ai-demis-hassabis-shakeup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">got new jobs this week<\/a>. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google\u2019s models seem to be behind the best of what\u2019s coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in turmoil? Is it about Demis Hassabis wanting something more interesting to work on than virtual assistants? Or is there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/976108\/google-ai-leadership-shakeup-jeff-dean-demis-hassabis-deepmind\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">something else entirely happening here<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">After that, we talk about Disney\u2019s plan to put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/streaming\/975543\/disney-plus-free-tier-q3-2026-earnings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even more stuff<\/a> in the Disney Plus app, David Ellison\u2019s defense of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/04\/opinion\/david-ellison-paramount-warner-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Ellison<\/a>, the scourge of the \u201ctime spent\u201d metric, Brendan Carr\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/business\/media\/federal-communications-commission-scraps-limit-broadcast-tv-ownership-rcna587641\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing assault<\/a> on free speech, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/975172\/bmw-spider-man-movie-infotainment-ad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spider-Man ads<\/a> appearing in your BMW, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the biggest names on Google\u2019s AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1136897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[323,51,867,196,326,16,15,163869],"class_list":["post-1136896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-google","tag-podcasts","tag-tech","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vergecast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117057250025034921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}