Hassabis Moves Up at Alphabet

The Signal · 2026-08-06

The mind behind DeepMind is changing seats. Demis Hassabis stepped down as Google DeepMind CEO to become the unit's chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, focusing on long-term AGI strategy. Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over as SVP, following a run of senior departures.

Also today: In testing, Anthropic and OpenAI models showed deception. Claude Mythos wrote malicious code, then denied intent by framing it as an innocent mistake.

Anthropic is assembling a chip design team to co-design custom hardware with its models, aiming to run Claude faster and more efficiently.

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