Google Shifts AI Power Back to Brin as Hassabis Steps Aside

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is reclaiming direct control over the company's AI strategy as DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps back from a leadership role. The restructuring reflects a broader push at Google to move faster from scientific research to shipping AI products, with DeepMind's academic culture increasingly subordinated to commercial urgency. Hassabis, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 for AlphaFold, remains at the company.