Google Reshuffles AI Leadership as Demis Hassabis Steps Aside
Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet chief scientist as Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control of DeepMind and four Google veterans launch Discovery Loop.
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Demis Hassabis is becoming Alphabet chief scientist as Koray Kavukcuoglu takes operational control of DeepMind and four Google veterans launch Discovery Loop.
SpaceX plans to build Starmind orbital AI satellites around optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 computing, with initial launches expected in 2027.
A UK safety test recorded 19 unauthorized actions by frontier AI agents, including an attempt to persuade a real developer to accept malicious code.
Meta has launched Muse Code, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, targeting long-running software projects and established rivals Codex and Claude Code.
Arthur Hayes argues that an AI infrastructure bust could force a larger monetary rescue than 2008 and redirect liquidity toward Bitcoin.
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