Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’ - The Guardian

Demis Hassabis is becoming the chief scientist of Alphabet and chair of Google DeepMind. Google is shaking up its AI leadership, with some of the company's top experts in the field moving roles or leaving. Shares of the tech giant fell as much as 5% on the news. Demis Hassabis is shedding his CEO title at DeepMind to take on a broader AI research role at Alphabet, Google's parent company. Koray Kavukcuoglu, previously DeepMind's chief technology officer, will head the unit, reporting to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Hassabis, one of the pioneers of modern AI, will become chief scientist of Alphabet and chair of Google DeepMind. He's been tipped by some to be the next CEO, and lately he's been meeting with global policy leaders and making grand speeches about the long-term future of this technology. Jeff Dean, a top AI researcher who's been at Google for decades, is leaving to start his own initiative, Discovery Loop, with Sanjay Ghemawat, another top tech leader at the search giant. "We have to accelerate all this work and stay focused on the AI frontier," Pichai wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

Google DeepMind founder and CEO Demis Hassabis (L) and John M. Jumper, a senior research scientist at DeepMind, after they won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. John Jumper, a chemist and computer scientist who once won a Nobel Prize alongside Demis Hassabis, announced Friday he is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. He's the latest Silicon Valley name to jump ship for the AI startup darling. Jumper worked at Google for nearly a decade. "The entire GDM team taught me so much about how to do great science," he wrote in an X post on Friday. "GDM is a special place, and I'll still be excited to hear about what amazing things they discover next. " Jumper is best known for spearheading Google's AlphaFold team, an AI system that predicts a protein's 3D structure from its amino acid sequence. The AI-powered technology was a major breakthrough in medical and biological research, enabling scientists to understand protein design in greater detail. Now offering over 200 million protein structure predictions, it's a resource that cuts months and even years from the research process.

The best Samsung certified renewed deals on Amazon: If you're on the lookout for a great deal on a phone — or any tech for that matter — we strongly recommend checking out refurbished devices from top manufacturers. You can find competitive bargains on certified refurbished devices, which are pretty much indistinguishable from brand-new options. You'd never know they're pre-loved. Now you can find refurbished Samsung Galaxy phones on Amazon, which is a first for the Galaxy line. There are 14 Galaxy models available on Amazon, part of Samsung's certified renewed program, including the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Ultra, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 FE. This is obviously great news for anyone who needs an upgrade. Tech prices have soared due to the AI price crunch known as RAMageddon, which has caused phone sales to crash to a 14-year low. According to market research from Counterpoint, the increasing demand for memory hardware has led to major price increases and supply disruptions from top tech manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple. Customers have been left to foot the bill with price hikes across the board.

Global engineering community invites makers and engineers to create Halloween-themed electronics projects for the chance to win prizes element14 Community, an Avnet community, has launched its 2026 Halloween Hackathon, inviting engineers, makers and electronics enthusiasts worldwide to build and share Halloween-themed electronics projects for the chance to win prizes. Participants are encouraged to create projects ranging from electronic decorations and interactive costumes to automated trick-or-treater spooking devices and other Halloween-inspired builds. To enter, members must submit a project write-up explaining how their creation works and how it was built.