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DeepMind's Hassabis Wants a Global AI Watchdog
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for a US-led global AI watchdog body, joining a growing list of frontier-lab leaders publicly backing international AI oversight.
Jul 14, 2026Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for a US-led global AI watchdog body, joining a growing list of frontier-lab leaders publicly backing international AI oversight.
Jul 14, 2026John Jumper -- the 2024 Nobel laureate who co-created AlphaFold -- is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join rival Anthropic. The exit lands just days after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer departed for OpenAI, turning a brutal week of poaching into the clearest sign yet that the AI race is now a talent war, and that Google's crown-jewel lab is the one bleeding.
Jun 20, 2026