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Demis Hassabis Steps Down as DeepMind CEO, Moves Into Chairman Role
Hassabis is shifting from day-to-day leadership to a chairman position while also picking up the chief scientist title at Alphabet.
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Business
Netflix to Raise Content Spend 10% in 2026 as AI Cuts Costs
Ted Sarandos says generative AI has been deployed across roughly 300 Netflix productions, enabling higher quality output even as the budget climbs.
Tech
Nadella Bets on a 33-Year-Old Exec to Fix Copilot
Fortune reports that Satya Nadella is leaning on 33-year-old Jacob Andreou, now running Microsoft Copilot, to pull the company's flagship AI assistant ahead after a slow start.
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PewDiePie's Odysseus Turns Local AI Into a Real Workspace
Odysseus, the free self-hosted AI workspace built by Felix 'PewDiePie' Kjellberg, has blown past 76,000 GitHub stars within a month, pitching a simple idea: own your AI instead of renting it.
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Masayoshi Son Rejects Musk's Plan for Data Centers in Space
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son waved off Elon Musk's vision of orbital AI data centers, insisting the race will be won by whoever builds computing power on Earth first.
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Cate Blanchett Launches Free AI Consent Tool in Brussels
Cate Blanchett unveiled the Human Consent Registry, a free platform letting people decide how AI can use their name, image, voice and likeness.
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Reid Hoffman Calls xAI 'a Complete Train Wreck'
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman delivered blunt verdicts on the AI landscape, panning xAI, questioning SpaceX's AI label, and arguing OpenAI and Anthropic can both win.
Business
Nadella Warns AI's Value Can't Flow to Just a Few Models
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argued in a June 22 Wall Street Journal interview that concentrating AI's gains in a handful of frontier models is politically untenable, even as Microsoft's AI business hit a $37 billion annual run rate.
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Jack Ma's Ant Unveils 'Ah Bao' AI Agent in Alipay Overhaul
Ant Group, the fintech giant tied to Jack Ma, has launched the biggest Alipay redesign in two decades, fronted by an AI assistant called Ah Bao that aims to outflank Tencent and ByteDance.