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Koray Kavukcuoglu
Named in AI Lately's reporting below.
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Hiring & Talent
The Biggest AI Hires of 2025
Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.
Hiring & Talent
Google DeepMind's Retention Playbook
A $2.4 billion Windsurf acquihire, Koray Kavukcuoglu's promotion and Demis Hassabis's step-back from chief executive trace how Google answered an exodus that sent Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer toward rivals.
Hiring & Talent
The Signal Brief: Forty Founders and a Frontier Kill Switch
Google DeepMind's own alumni have founded more startups than OpenAI, Anthropic or Meta, Gavin Newsom ordered frontier labs toward a kill switch, and Microsoft's stock jumped on a Copilot that finally writes code.
Hiring & Talent
Forty Founders: How DeepMind Built the Rival It Fears
Google DeepMind has produced more startup founders than any rival lab, and four of the newest ventures are raising billions to prospect for the technology that replaces the transformer it still sells.
Capital & Markets
Valuations and Vacancies: Monday's Signal
Meta hired away MongoDB's chief executive, Instinct's valuation quadrupled in six weeks, and Nvidia opened a $150 billion buyback the same day it launched a system to police runaway agents.
Frontier Models
Gemini 4 Argon Tops Google's Own Chart and Divides Google's Staff
Google's new flagship leads 12 of the 18 tests on its own chart, and vetted cyber defenders get it first. Artificial Analysis scores it level with GPT-6 Astra, and some Google employees told Bloomberg it stumbles on real coding work.
Hiring & Talent
DeepMind's Founding Generation Leaves to Build Rivals
Nine senior Google DeepMind and Google Brain scientists left in 2026 to found or join four separate rivals, and Google says its bench stays deep.
Frontier Models
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Tops the AI Rankings
An independent index ranks Google's new model first, built mostly on cybersecurity skill its own chairman says the industry still must secure.
Capital & Markets
Doubts, Discounts and a Distribution Fight
Cramer doubts Nvidia's math, Washington discounts Claude while the Pentagon blocks it, and the Justice Department opens a fight over who runs AI's model shelf.