{"id":24318,"date":"2026-08-08T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/google-deepmind-enters-a-new-era-as-co-founder-demis-hassabis-shifts-ai-role\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:37:26","slug":"google-deepmind-enters-a-new-era-as-co-founder-demis-hassabis-shifts-ai-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/google-deepmind-enters-a-new-era-as-co-founder-demis-hassabis-shifts-ai-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/oct\/09\/demis-hassabis-from-video-game-designer-to-nobel-prize-winner-google-deepmind-ai-\">Sir Demis Hassabis<\/a> said AI had brought the world to a \u201cpivotal moment in human history\u201d last month, he knew another big change was imminent.<\/p>\n<p>This shift was closer to home. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/oct\/09\/demis-hassabis-from-video-game-designer-to-nobel-prize-winner-google-deepmind-ai-\">Nobel prize-winning<\/a> head of Google DeepMind, Google\u2019s AI unit, announced this week he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/05\/big-shake-up-in-googles-ai-team-as-deepmind-chief-executive-steps-down\">relinquishing his day-to-day duties as chief executive<\/a> and becoming chair. He is also taking on the role of chief scientist at DeepMind\u2019s parent, Alphabet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/aug\/08\/google-demis-hassabis-deepmind-shifts-role\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ebebc2365335048edba6b74991c6a785fd79484c\/0_1054_8736_6989\/master\/8736.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9f12a972684d34f935c1ca95c982843c\" title=\"Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role\" \/>Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over<br \/>\nWhen Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a \u201cpivotal moment in human history\u201d last month, he knew another big change was imminent.<br \/>\nThis shift was closer to home. The Nobel prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, Google\u2019s AI unit, announced this week he was relinquishing his day-to-day duties as chief executive and becoming chair. He is also taking on the role of chief scientist at DeepMind\u2019s parent, Alphabet. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over When Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a \u201cpivotal moment in human history\u201d last month, he knew another big change was imminent. This shift was closer to home. The Nobel prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/google-deepmind-enters-a-new-era-as-co-founder-demis-hassabis-shifts-ai-role\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}