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Alphabet is now funding the startup built by the researchers it lost
Jeff Dean has left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop with three colleagues, and Alphabet has taken a founding investment alongside a cloud partnership, on the same day Demis Hassabis gave up operational control of Google DeepMind.
Demis Hassabis says the age of thinking machines is almost here, and the field cannot agree whether he is right
Google DeepMind's chief executive has published his fullest statement yet on why he believes artificial general intelligence is only a few years away and what it would change. The claim carries the weight of a Nobel laureate at the head of a leading lab, and it remains one of the most contested propositions in the field.
Google's AI Overviews Are Now Google's Words, and That Changes Who Answers for the Machine
A Munich court has decided that when an AI system makes a claim, the company that built it is the one speaking, reorganising the accountability question that has shadowed generative AI since it reached the mass market.