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Google’s AI Leadership Shakeup: Disaster or Exactly What It Needs?
Donnerstag, 6. August 2026 · 33 min
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Demis Hassabis is relinquishing day-to-day control of DeepMind, Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years, and both moves follow a string of other marquee departures. Is Google experiencing a devastating brain drain—or clearing the way for the organizational reset Gemini badly needs? In the headlines: Meta releases two new models and its first coding harness, Anthropic starts building a chip team, and AI-driven shopping sends Shopify soaring.
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