In a major leadership shift, Google DeepMind co-founder Sir Demis Hassabis has transitioned from his day-to-day duties as CEO to become the unit's Chair and Chief Scientist for Alphabet. He is succeeded by Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will lead as Senior Vice-President. The move signals a strategic tightening of DeepMind's integration with Google’s headquarters in Mountain View as the company races to reclaim ground lost to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Industry leaders are shifting focus from simple chat interfaces to 'agentic' AI systems capable of executing complex, multi-step workflows autonomously. Salesforce reported a tripling of active AI agents in organizations this month, while OpenAI and Google have launched dedicated work-agent platforms (ChatGPT Work and Gemini Spark) to handle project management and coding across enterprise applications.
OpenAI officially surpassed 1 billion weekly active users this week, a milestone driven by the global rollout of its GPT-5.6 family and the new 'GPT-Live' voice interface.
Which upcoming OpenAI model was flagged this week for reaching a 'Critical' capability threshold in cybersecurity testing?