Google names Kavukcuoglu to lead DeepMind as Hassabis becomes chairman and Jeff Dean leaves

Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead the AI unit and report to Sundar Pichai. Demis Hassabis becomes DeepMind chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, and Jeff Dean is leaving to co-found Discovery Loop. (Axios; SiliconANGLE)

Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on AI for science, will be backed by Google, which will also be its cloud provider. Sanjay Ghemawat is among the co-founders. Alphabet shares fell more than 4% on the news. (Axios; SiliconANGLE)