DeepMind Leadership Change: Hassabis Steps Aside as CEO

Demis Hassabis is leaving the CEO role at DeepMind, Google's AI lab, to become chair and focus on long-term AI goals. CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over daily operations. CEO Sundar Pichai urged staff to move faster after Google lost ground to rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, both seen as quicker to act.