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Google shakes up AI leadership. Demis Hassabis takes on broader research role, and Jeff Dean leaves.

Some of Google's top AI leaders are leaving their roles, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis taking another role at Alphabet and Jeff Dean leaving.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping aside

Google's AI organization is undergoing a profound change as the company struggles to keep pace with OpenAI and Anthropic.

Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

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Reddit says it plans to “make changes” to old Reddit.

As part of its efforts to prevent spam and scraping, the company is “exploring different options” for the classic experience, spokesperson Rosa Kim tells The Verge. Reddit recently started requiring users to be logged in if they wanted the classic design.

This Week in the Big AI Data Center Buildout

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

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Investor Gavin Baker says it's too early to judge Big Tech's massive AI spending

Gavin Baker, managing partner of Atreides Management, says Big Tech's huge AI infrastructure spending is beginning to pay off.

Anthropic is developing custom AI chips for Claude.

Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacy

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

This startup that just raised $6.5 million bets the next big side hustle is controlling robots with VR headsets

Avatar Robotics, led by Colin Webb, is paying people to control warehouse robots, which generates the data needed to train autonomous machines.