Developing story
Google DeepMind shakeup
The story so far — 8 entries, AUG 6, 2026 to AUG 21, 2026.
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AUG 6, 2026 · No. 78 · Lead story
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis steps down as CEOFortune
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AUG 7, 2026 · No. 79 · Lead story
Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startupTechCrunch
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AUG 9, 2026 · Edition · Lead story
Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis steps down as CEOFortune
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AUG 12, 2026 · No. 85
Inside the burnout and missed deadlines that preceded Demis Hassabis's exitA deeper account of the DeepMind shakeup points to low morale and a slipped Gemini flagship as the real drivers behind last week's leadership reshuffle, not a clean handoff.
Fortune
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AUG 13, 2026 · No. 86
Google DeepMind's Kavukcuoglu lays out his plan for Gemini after the shakeupThe new SVP overseeing day-to-day research outlines changes to Gemini's model strategy, a week after Hassabis stepped back and Jeff Dean left to found a rival lab.
CNBC
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AUG 16, 2026 · No. 89
Gemini 3.5 Pro misses its third deadline as DeepMind restarts pretrainingGoogle's flagship model missed its third deadline after DeepMind scrapped the base model and restarted pretraining from scratch, even as the smaller 3.7 Flash shipped on time.
Forbes
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AUG 16, 2026 · No. 89
Jeff Dean and three other Google veterans leave to found Discovery LoopDean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le are leaving after a combined century at Google to build a startup aimed at automating machine-learning research itself.
TechCrunch
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AUG 21, 2026 · No. 94 · Lead story
Koray Kavukcuoglu takes the reins at Google DeepMind as Hassabis steps backCNBC