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Alex Heath @ The Verge 2 place · 02/28/2025 18:46 EDT

Google’s co-founder tells AI staff to stop “building nanny products

For the last couple years, it has been evident that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is back in the building. This week, he sent a clear message to hundreds of employees in Google’s DeepMind AI division, known as GDM: the pressure to win the AGI race is on. “It has been 2 years of the Gemini […]

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