{"id":1026551,"date":"2026-08-06T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026551"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:31:50","slug":"google-shakes-up-ai-leadership-as-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-shifts-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/google-shakes-up-ai-leadership-as-deepmind-ceo-demis-hassabis-shifts-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shifts role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent company Alphabet on Wednesday announced a leadership overhaul of its AI division, with AI chief Demis Hassabis leaving his main managerial role and \u200bseveral leaders of its Gemini model, including veteran engineer Jeff Dean, \u200bdeparting the company. <\/p>\n<p>The shakeup comes during a pivotal juncture for Google DeepMind: the flagship version of its latest Gemini model remains unreleased \u200bdespite a planned June launch, sparking investor and industry concerns that Google is falling behind its rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, each of which scooped up a star Google AI staffer this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent company Alphabet on Wednesday announced a leadership overhaul of its AI division, with AI chief Demis Hassabis leaving his main managerial role and \u200bseveral leaders of its Gemini model, including veteran engineer Jeff Dean, \u200bdeparting the company. The shakeup comes during a pivotal juncture for Google DeepMind: the flagship version of its latest Gemini model remains unreleased \u200bdespite a planned June launch, sparking investor and industry concerns that Google is falling behind its rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, each of which scooped up a star Google AI staffer this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026551","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026577,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026551\/revisions\/1026577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}