August 5, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

• Google reshapes DeepMind leadership as Demis Hassabis shifts to AGI strategy and Koray Kavukcuoglu takes the helm; Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat also launch an independent public-benefit corporation focused on machine learning, science, and engineering.
• Meta releases Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 for long-horizon software engineering; the beta coding agent coordinates persistent subagents and uses a replay-exact local event log for restart-safe execution.