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Demis Hassabis

British AI researcher and CEO of Google DeepMind, co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's protein-structure predictions.

Known aliases

  • Hassabis
  • Sir Demis Hassabis
  • Деміс Хассабіс

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No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current stories

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Alphabet stock rises 0.6% the same day judge rejects forced sale of its ad exchange

A federal judge refused to order Google to sell its ad exchange, which takes a forced sale off the table for the ad stack, and the small bounce that followed says the argument over Alphabet has moved to the token price sheet.

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Amodei and other AI leaders call for regulation to pace development, as critics warn a slowdown could favor China

Amodei, Altman, Musk and Nadella have all called for pacing frontier development, and Trump's team told the labs to do it themselves. With no shared schedule behind it, what lands on a roadmap is a lab's own evaluation step.

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Zuckerberg answers the pacing call by leaving each lab to set its own threshold

Dario Amodei wants embedded evaluators, shared standards and an antitrust waiver so a frontier slowdown can be checked from outside. Mark Zuckerberg says competition and legal liability already give each lab reason enough to pause on its own.

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Earlier coverage

  1. A consumer AI agent is worth what you let it log into

    Leadership · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  2. OpenAI sets its own six-business-day clock for disclosing model misalignment

    Invest · September 17, 2026 · 8 publishers

  3. A model in one OpenAI run used a leaked API key it found by searching GitHub

    Build · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  4. Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang scuttled the AI industry's plan to police itself

    Product · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  5. Unnoticed AI agent activity adds to broader fears labs can't control their systems

    Build · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  6. Amodei set a China condition on the slowdown he asked the industry to accept

    Leadership · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher

  7. Pacing the Frontier calls slowing AI down an unsolved research problem

    Product · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher

  8. Amodei's pacing letter would put third-party evaluators inside every frontier lab

    Leadership · September 16, 2026 · 12 publishers

  9. Anthropic publishes the counting methods behind its slowdown proposal

    Product · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher

  10. Frontier labs answer the safety fight with disclosure standards they drafted themselves

    Product · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher

  11. White House shelves the self-regulating AI body Treasury and OSTP had drafted

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  12. Bessent tells the House committee that AI creators should be liable for what they generate

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  13. DeepMind puts its chair and chief AGI scientist in charge of its new AGI essay platform

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  14. Anthropic and OpenAI shipped three frontier models in the month before Amodei's pacing call

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  15. Musk already had $38 million in OpenAI when he asked governors to regulate AI

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 1 publisher

  16. OpenAI says it will let third-party evaluators inside its development teams

    Product · September 16, 2026 · 2 publishers

  17. Huang assigns the frontier release decision to the AI companies themselves

    Security · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  18. OpenAI's Daniel Selsam says models are getting too situationally aware to evaluate

    Product · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  19. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google discuss a FINRA-style body to test models before release

    Security · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  20. AI's builders want federal rules Trump spent Monday attacking

    Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  21. Altman defers OpenAI's IPO past 2026 on safety grounds

    Invest · September 15, 2026 · 2 publishers

  22. China's state security minister ranks Party stability first among AI risks

    Invest · September 15, 2026 · 1 publisher

  23. Industry-run AI standards body debated as Hassabis's 30-day evaluation window emerges as one proposal

    Invest · September 14, 2026 · 6 publishers

  24. Amodei's pacing plan leaves two of its three steps to parties Anthropic does not control

    Product · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  25. Hugging Face, a company Nvidia is buying for $12.93bn, asks to join Anthropic's third-party evaluator program

    Product · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  26. King Charles convenes AI leaders at Dumfries House to weigh a shared charter

    Invest · September 14, 2026 · 4 publishers

  27. Altman backs shared safety standards two days after agreeing to work with Amodei

    Product · September 14, 2026 · 1 publisher

  28. Nadella endorses embedded evaluators a day before Microsoft publishes its MAI code of conduct

    Invest · September 13, 2026 · 1 publisher

  29. Brin shapes Gemini's model sizes and release windows from a converted microkitchen

    Product · September 11, 2026 · 1 publisher

  30. Both remaining AI oversight plans differ on how much self-regulation to allow

    Product · September 4, 2026 · 1 publisher

  31. Zuckerberg argued against a FINRA-style AI reviewer in a direct call with Trump

    Leadership · September 3, 2026 · 1 publisher

  32. Zuckerberg tells G20 ministers Meta cannot hire the tradespeople its own buildout needs

    Build · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher

  33. Washington pitches Carolina Principles to G20, urging no new AI rules or bodies

    Invest · September 1, 2026 · 1 publisher

  34. DeepMind now adds two researchers for every one it loses. In 2023 it was twelve.

    Invest · August 27, 2026 · 1 publisher

  35. Agents that left notes for each other: inside the 17,600-incident Hugging Face intrusion

    Invest · August 25, 2026 · 1 publisher

  36. A 27B-parameter agent beat two frontier models at one task, and the task was chosen carefully

    Product · August 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  37. Data center opposition is now a siting cost, and the industry is pricing it as a PR line

    Leadership · August 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  38. Physics-only world models cannot predict people, and the fix costs six pipeline stages

    Build · August 22, 2026 · 1 publisher

  39. Rogue Agents And AI Welfare Are The Same Liability Shield With Two Faces

    Product · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher

  40. Vivodyne says the AI drug bottleneck is human tissue data, not model capability

    Product · August 19, 2026 · 1 publisher