{
  "id": 186338,
  "title": "Technology: Alphabet's AI division gets new management – stock loses significantly",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/05/technologie-alphabets-ki-sparte-erhalt-eine-neue-leitung-aktie",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-05T17:43:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/alphabet-ki-sparte-erhaelt-neue-leitung-aktie-verliert-deutlich/100245370.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "San Francisco - Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has announced significant changes in its Artificial Intelligence (AI) division. The Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis is stepping down from his role as leader of Google Deepmind, focusing more on advancing the exploration of potential Superintelligence within the corporation.\n\nIn addition to this, Hassabis will assume the role of Chief Scientist at Alphabet. This decision comes as Hassabis believes that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is becoming more achievable, a term referring to advanced AI systems with human-level intelligence.\n\nSeveral leading developers of the Gemini AI model have also left the company. Among them, Jeff Dean, a seasoned engineer and former Chief Scientist at Deepmind, has decided to co-found his own startup. Koray Kavukcuoglu, who was the Technology leader at Deepmind, will now take charge of AI model development.\n\nAlphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai addressed these changes in a blog post, emphasizing the company's commitment to rapid and purposeful progress. He reiterated Alphabet's determination to remain at the forefront of technological development, focusing particularly on areas where improvement is necessary.",
  "summary": "Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis is giving up the management of Google DeepMind and devoting himself to other tasks within the company. This restructuring comes at a critical time for Google.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}