Google DeepMind

Demis Hassabis is not retiring, being pushed sideways into an honorary role, or leaving Alphabet. He is exiting the operational command structure of Google DeepMind entirely and moving into a newly created position: Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet.

Executive Order 14409 requires developers of covered frontier AI models to give the US federal government up to 30 days of confidential early access before any public release, subject to cybersecurity, insider-risk, intellectual property and nondisclosure safeguards.

Google Cloud told developers on 19 May 2026 that Gemini 3.5 Pro was in testing and would arrive the following month. Google I/O was the stage, and the model was positioned as the company's frontier-level answer across coding, reasoning and multimodal tasks.