DeepMind's Sovereign Shift: The End of the Lab's Independence and the Rise of AI Security Panic

The era of the independent, research-led AI lab is over. Commercial reality and national security concerns are reshaping the British AI landscape.

Evidence For

• Sir Demis Hassabis, the Nobel laureate and co-founder of London-based Google DeepMind, has stepped down as CEO to become chair and Alphabet's chief scientist, handing day-to-day control to a US-based executive. Observers say this signals the end of DeepMind's independence as a separate entity.
• A former Google...