American computer scientist and Google AI leader
Alphabet has announced a leadership overhaul in its AI division: Demis Hassabis will move to chairman and chief scientist of Alphabet as Koray Kavukcuoglu leads DeepMind day-to-day; Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are launching Discovery Loop with Alphabet investing.
Economists and AI researchers warn that AI could drive a transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution within a decade, bringing risks like job displacement but also rising living standards. The Stanford-led letter urges governments and industry to build incentives, guardrails, and institutions to steer AI so it complements humans.
U.S. officials have accused Chinese startups, most prominently Moonshot, of using distillation to replicate capabilities from Anthropic's Fable and have warned of sanctions and trade restrictions. China has pushed back, industry groups have urged against broad bans, and major U.S. tech firms have publicly defended open-weight models while policymakers debate targeted measures.