{"id":1003096,"date":"2026-04-15T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003096"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T06:17:58","slug":"google-ai-ceo-demis-hassabis-has-a-message-for-engineer-who-claims-his-googler-friend-said-google-is-average-at-ai-adoption-tell-your-buddy-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/15\/google-ai-ceo-demis-hassabis-has-a-message-for-engineer-who-claims-his-googler-friend-said-google-is-average-at-ai-adoption-tell-your-buddy-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AI CEO Demis Hassabis has a message for engineer who claims his &#8216;Googler friend&#8217; said Google is average at AI adoption: Tell your Buddy to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When software engineer Steve Yegge published a lengthy thread claiming Google&#8217;s AI adoption was roughly on par with John Deere\u2014yes, the tractor company\u2014the response from the top was swift and blunt. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, told Yegge to have his source &#8220;do some actual work and stop spreading absolute nonsense,&#8221; calling the post &#8220;completely false and just pure clickbait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yegge&#8217;s original thread, which went viral over the weekend, was based on a conversation with a longtime Google tech director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When software engineer Steve Yegge published a lengthy thread claiming Google&#8217;s AI adoption was roughly on par with John Deere\u2014yes, the tractor company\u2014the response from the top was swift and blunt. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, told Yegge to have his source &#8220;do some actual work and stop spreading absolute nonsense,&#8221; calling the post &#8220;completely false and just pure clickbait.&#8221; Yegge&#8217;s original thread, which went viral over the weekend, was based on a conversation with a longtime Google tech director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}