Google DeepMind is seeing major leadership changes, per Axios. Demis Hassabis is stepping aside as CEO of @GoogleDeepMind to become chairman of the unit and chief scientist of Alphabet. He will keep leading Isomorphic Labs and focus more on long-term AGI strategy. Koray Kavukcuoglu, the current CTO, will take day-to-day leadership as senior VP, reporting to Sundar Pichai. Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and a 27-year veteran, is leaving with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le to start Discovery Loop, an independent public benefit corporation focused on accelerating ML, science, and engineering discoveries. Google will invest and serve as a cloud partner. The shifts aim to balance near-term AI progress with bigger-picture AGI and scientific work.