Demis Hassabis

SpaceX and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk‘s vision for Mars as a political project was reportedly thwarted in 2024 due to concerns about AI and political interference, according to a conversation revealed by Peter Thiel. What Happened: Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal (...

Demis Hassabis, chief executive at Google Deepmind, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG), says the wealth produced by artificial intelligence may one day require a "universal high income" so the gains "are distributed across the economy." What Happened: In a CNN interview,...

Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, has disclosed that his team is working on a new email system that will employ artificial intelligence (AI) to handle the daily email grind.  What Happened: Hassabis revealed the initiative at the SXSW London festival, where he...

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) subsidiary Google’s DeepMind, believes that while AI is displacing certain jobs, it will also create new, “very valuable” roles, particularly for those adept at leveraging emerging technologies. What Happened:...

Despite previously warning about the dangers of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics, Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has invested in several AI startups following a stark warning from DeepMind's co-founder, Demis Hassabis. What Happened: In an interview with CNBC in July 2017, Musk had...

At its annual developer conference this week, Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google unveiled Veo 3, the latest upgrade to its AI video generation tool developed by Google DeepMind. What Happened: The new model doesn't just generate high-resolution, cinematic visuals — it also...

Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has offered a more cautious outlook on the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI) than the tech giant's co-founder, Sergey Brin.  What Happened: In a conversation on the Hard Fork podcast by the New York Times...

Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas believes search giant Google is currently at its most vulnerable since its founding over two decades ago, caught between its legacy dominance in search advertising and the fast-moving disruption of AI-native search. What Happened: During the Sohn Investment...

Alphabet Inc‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) subsidiary Google DeepMind has decided to transition from a research lab to an AI product factory. This move could potentially challenge the company’s long-standing dominance in foundational research. What Happened: Google DeepMind, has merged...

Although Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, he may not be as smart as some of his billionaire peers, according to new data used to assess general intelligence. What To Know: According to a report from The Street citing online tutoring...

AI technology’s potential risk of extinction to the human species is on par with threats such as pandemics and nuclear catastrophes, according to a joint statement by over 350 notable AI experts, including Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Kevin Scott, chief technology officer of Microsoft Corp...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) are "racing" to develop a mega-artificial intelligence machine capable of besting humans at a 2,500-year-old Chinese board game, Go, according to Tech Insider. The East's Chess According to Mark Zuckerberg's personal...