Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/google-shifts-ai-power-to-california-in-race-against-anthropic-openai"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260806/i13.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260806/p13#a260806p13" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/google-shifts-ai-power-to-california-in-race-against-anthropic-openai">Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Alphabet Inc.'s Google is concentrating its artificial intelligence leadership at its Mountain View, California &hellip; </p>