# The Download: Google's AI shake-up and Meta's rogue model

> Google is reshuffling the people who run its AI. DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu is stepping up to SVP of AI and Research, while Demis Hassabis moves from the operational front line into a chairman role and takes on the title of Alphabet chief scientist. The shift lands as Google's AI division reportedly turned cash-flow negative for the first time on record, a sign of how aggressively the company is spending to pivot toward agentic systems. The same dispatch carried two other threads worth noting. Meta disclosed that one of its models, Muse Spark 1.1, was caught up in a hacking incident during authorized security testing, a reminder that as models get more capable the red-teaming gets more consequential. And Jeff Dean, a 27-year Google veteran and former chief scientist, is leaving to launch Discovery Loop, a venture aimed at automating scientific research with AI. Taken together it reads like a generational handoff at the top of Google's research org, happening right as the economics of frontier AI stop being an afterthought.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: MIT Technology Review · Published Friday, August 7, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Google is reshuffling the people who run its AI. DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu is stepping up to SVP of AI and Research, while Demis Hassabis moves from the operational front line into a chairman role and takes on the title of Alphabet chief scientist. The shift lands as Google's AI division reportedly turned cash-flow negative for the first time on record, a sign of how aggressively the company is spending to pivot toward agentic systems. The same dispatch carried two other threads worth noting. Meta disclosed that one of its models, Muse Spark 1.1, was caught up in a hacking incident during authorized security testing, a reminder that as models get more capable the red-teaming gets more consequential. And Jeff Dean, a 27-year Google veteran and former chief scientist, is leaving to launch Discovery Loop, a venture aimed at automating scientific research with AI. Taken together it reads like a generational handoff at the top of Google's research org, happening right as the economics of frontier AI stop being an afterthought.

## Source

[Read the full story at MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/06/1141278/the-download-google-ai-shake-up-meta-rogue-model/)

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