Google loses dean and reshuffles deepmind after cash-flow turns negative

google has announced a major restructuring of deepmind, with demis hassabis stepping down as ceo to become chairman while cto koray kavukcuoglu takes over daily operations. concurrently, chief scientist jeff dean is departing to found discovery loop, a startup focused on automating scientific research with google as an investor. these leadership changes follow google's first recorded quarter of negative cash flow and indicate a tighter integration of the ai lab into google's broader business. the company is explicitly shifting its scientific focus from specialized tools like alphafold toward agentic ai systems capable of autonomous research.