{"id":1026842,"date":"2026-08-06T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026842"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:51:21","slug":"google-deepmind-loses-both-ceo-and-chief-scientist-demis-hassabis-gets-a-promotion-and-jeff-dean-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/google-deepmind-loses-both-ceo-and-chief-scientist-demis-hassabis-gets-a-promotion-and-jeff-dean-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind &#8216;loses&#8217; both CEO and chief scientist; Demis Hassabis gets a promotion and Jeff Dean steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind lost its CEO and its chief scientist on the same day, and Google would like you to read that as good news. Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis is handing over day-to-day operational control of the AI unit he has run since 2023, moving up to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet\u2014a title that did not exist until today. Hours later, Jeff Dean, Google&#8217;s roughly 30th employee and a 27-year veteran, confirmed he was leaving to build something of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Investors read the two announcements together and marked the stock down about 4%. The timing is the problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google DeepMind lost its CEO and its chief scientist on the same day, and Google would like you to read that as good news. Sundar Pichai announced that Demis Hassabis is handing over day-to-day operational control of the AI unit he has run since 2023, moving up to become Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet\u2014a title that did not exist until today. Hours later, Jeff Dean, Google&#8217;s roughly 30th employee and a 27-year veteran, confirmed he was leaving to build something of his own. Investors read the two announcements together and marked the stock down about 4%. [&hellip;]<\/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-1026842","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\/1026842","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=1026842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026843,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026842\/revisions\/1026843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}