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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

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adolph · 1785946441 · focus · HN ↗
"Dean and Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are starting Discovery Loop, an independent publicity benefit corporation in which Google will be an investor and cloud provider.:
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1. inerte · 1785946660 · focus · HN ↗
  I don't get what you mean?
  To me the biggest news is Jeff and Sanjay leaving Google... but then not really, since Google will be "an investor". I guess that's sorta their retirement plan? And is Discovery Loop actually part of Alphabet? So complicated.
  1. owlninja · 1785946812 · focus · HN ↗
    I think he was referring to an obvious typo "publicity benefit corporation"

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