{"id":5187,"date":"2026-08-08T01:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:54:30","slug":"google-deepmind-ai-race-vergecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=5187","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AI shake-up: What\u2019s next for Demis Hassabis and DeepMind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<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\">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\">something else entirely happening here<\/a>?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\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\">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\">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\">ongoing assault<\/a> on free speech, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/transportation\/975172\/bmw-spider-man-movie-infotainment-ad\">Spider-Man ads<\/a> appearing in your BMW, and much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcast\/976784\/google-deepmind-ai-race-vergecast\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the biggest names on Google\u2019s AI team got new jobs this week. 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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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,32,124,34,125],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-ai","tag-google","tag-podcasts","tag-tech","tag-vergecast"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google\u2019s AI shake-up: What\u2019s next for Demis Hassabis and DeepMind - Silvybrand Lifestyle Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With Google\u2019s Gemini models seemingly behind, and leaders like Jeff Dean and Demis Hassabis moving to new roles, can Google stil compete in AI? 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