Demis Hassabis
4 mentions across all digests
CEO of Google DeepMind, referenced in the context of Google's launch of Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 as an open-weights model targeting reasoning, agentic workflows, and multimodality.
Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious
DeepMind researcher Alexander Lerchner argues that LLMs are philosophically barred from consciousness by their dependency on human interpretation of outputs—directly challenging CEO narratives about AGI.
Google leaders including Demis Hassabis push back on claim of uneven AI adoption internally
Google's AI leadership, including DeepMind head Demis Hassabis, defends the company's internal AI tool distribution against allegations that access to AI systems is unevenly deployed across departments.
Sam Altman’s second thoughts
Physical attacks on Sam Altman expose the contradiction between his democratic AI governance rhetoric and OpenAI's documented lobbying against safety regulations including SB 1047 and the EU AI Act.
[AINews] Good Friday
Google shipped Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 with day-0 adoption across vLLM, llama.cpp, and Ollama—a genuine open-source play for multimodal reasoning and agentic workflows that François Chollet called the company's strongest open model.