Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis' responsibilities (Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/google-deepmind-boss-hassabis-moves-to-chair-role-in-shakeup"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260805/i29.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260805/p29#a260805p29" 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/2026-08-05/google-deepmind-boss-hassabis-moves-to-chair-role-in-shakeup">Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis' responsibilities</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, is moving to a chairman role at Alphabet Inc.'s AI lab in a major reshuffle at the internet giant.</p>