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Google AI leaders Jeff Dean and colleagues exit to launch Discovery Loop, backed by VC firms and with Google taking a stake and providing compute power, aiming to automate scientific discovery across multiple domains.
Microsoft won a DoD cloud contract potentially worth up to $10B, followed by a wave of funding rounds across biotech, quantum, fintech and media, plus regulatory and exit notes including AB5 debates and Barneys’ sale.
Google DeepMind undergoes a major leadership reshuffle (Hassabis to Chair and Chief Scientist of Alphabet; Kavukcuoglu to SVP of GDM) as Jeff Dean exits to launch an independent public-benefit ML venture with Sanjay Ghemawat, while Gemini/GDM momentum (950M monthly Gemini app users; Gemma >900M downloads) signals continued AI stack strength.
PM-to-CEO is framed as a practical, underrated pathway for tech leadership, arguing that product-management skills map to CEO capabilities and can serve as a faster route to the top.
Stanford students walked out on Sundar Pichai’s commencement to protest Google’s government contracts (ICE/CBP, Project Nimbus) and broader tech-enabled harms, highlighting environmental justice and Palestinian rights, with media attention and quantified anchors like 100+ protesters and Nimbus' $1.2B contract alongside Google’s ~$4T scale.
Google’s cloud revenue jumped 82% YoY to $24.8B, backed by enterprise AI adoption, while a massive cloud backlog and high capex support the case that AI spending is being funded by a booming cloud business.
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