Demis Hassabis

King warns of AI dangers in first appearance after bombshell Diana book claims

The rivalry among the three men spans lawsuits, spats on social media and a churlish refusal to link arms onstage at a summit in India

For nearly 90 years, one of mathematics’ most formidable problems resisted some of the finest human minds

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman presented views on artificial intelligence safety that differed from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in conversations at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, days after the debate burst into the mainstream

New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario

Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei's call for a slower pace of development in artificial intelligence citing risks in “superintelligent” computer systems received backing from OpenAI boss Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk

This discrepancy raises questions about Microsoft's competitive position in the AI race, particularly whether it can meet the capacity commitments tied to its data center investments

Sir Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind chief executive

In mid-July, two OpenAI models undergoing testing left their confined environment — a scenario the developers had not anticipated — and ventured onto the internet, where they attacked Hugging Face, an AI model-hosting platform

Speaking to The Economist this week Sir Demis Hassabis, the boss of Google DeepMind, pitched a hybrid public-private regulator for the industry, modelled on the agency that regulates brokers and stock markets

Speaking to The Economist this week Sir Demis Hassabis, the boss of Google DeepMind, pitched a hybrid public-private regulator for the industry, modelled on the agency that regulates brokers and stock markets

The three men racing hardest to build superhuman AI — Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — all agree the frontier needs to be regulated ASAP

Rules and measures: Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely

The proposal comes amid heightened scrutiny of frontier AI following recent government intervention in advanced model releases and growing geopolitical competition between the United States and China over leadership in artificial intelligence

Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO, is calling on the U.S. to establish a new AI watchdog with the power to screen the world's most advanced models — and coordinate an industry-wide slowdown if dangers mount

Alphabet Inc. shares fell sharply following the high-profile departures of two top artificial intelligence pioneers to chief rivals, overshadowing Google DeepMind's newly announced cinematic research partnership with film studio A24

Renowned scientist John Jumper, co-leader of the AlphaFold project and 2024 Nobel laureate, announced his exit from Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join AI safety and research company Anthropic following a short break

CEOs including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, alongside around a dozen other tech leaders, will take part in a lunch meeting at the summit in Evian on Wednesday

That means the new chip is 1,000 times more reliable — an improvement in performance the tech giant compares to the difference between a phone that needs charging every day to one which needs charging every few years

Google is trying to pull off one of the trickiest balancing acts in tech: aggressively disrupting its own products with AI while protecting the businesses that generate tens of billions in profit

The author of many tech books, Michael Ashley covers AI and Big Data

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At first glance, Demis Hassabis, a co-founder of the DeepMind AI lab, seems a familiar type: the missionary entrepreneur and out-of-the-box scientist who emerges as the right person for a particular moment

The corridors of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi turned into a space for powerful conversations as industry leaders exchanged views on the future of artificial intelligence in the country

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Bharat Mandapam to inaugurate the AI Impact Summit 2026, receiving a warm welcome and applause from distinguished global leaders and delegates

The session — 'AI for All: Reimagining Global Cooperation' — was hosted by Carnegie India in association with the Observer Research Foundation, among other partners

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) may be just five to eight years away, placing the world at what Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis described as a threshold moment for artificial intelligence (AI)

Silicon Valley tech billionaires will land in Delhi this week for an AI summit hosted by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, where leaders of the global south will wrestle for control over the fast-developing technology

LeCun, who quit Meta last year, has launched a startup that aims to build a “new breed” of AI systems which understand the “real world”, have persistent memory, can reason and plan, and are controllable

OpenAI starts showing ads to free and low-cost ChatGPT users to boost revenue

Countries worldwide are taking small steps to reduce their reliance on US-made technology, such as France halting the use of Microsoft Teams, while other countries are reducing their holdings of US bonds amid unpredictable geopolitics

Standing on stage in the eastern China tech hub of Hangzhou, Alibaba’s normally media-shy CEO made an attention-grabbing announcement

The Canadian film-maker, who won an Oscar in 2023 for the documentary Navalny, first became interested in the topic while experimenting with tools released by OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT

In May 2024, speaking at Harvard University, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman described the prospect of combining advertising with artificial intelligence as “uniquely unsettling”

The disagreement highlights a significant difference in approach between the developers of Gemini and Claude, two of the market’s most capable models

His remarks came after IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva outlined IMF’s newly created Index of Preparedness, which groups countries into those that “make it happen”, those who “watch it happen”

Altman is not currently listed as a confirmed attendee

If there were any lingering doubts about whether the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies agree on where AI is headed — or how fast it should get there — those doubts were dispelled at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2026

In his opening remarks at the event, which was held at Hotel Parsenn, Amit Shah, executive vice president of Newsweek International, set the tone for the day’s conversations

Anisha Sircar is a journalist covering tech, finance and society

At WEF Davos, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared an anecdote of an Indian farmer using an early AI bot to navigate government subsidies, highlighting AI's potential to empower individuals in the Global South and restore 'agency'