Source: The Wall Street Journal (paywall)
Google is shifting its 90-person AI responsibility team from DeepMind—where it operated with some structural independence—into the corporate global affairs unit, effectively moving safety research from the product development organization into a communications and policy function. The move suggests Google views AI risk management primarily as a stakeholder management and regulatory affairs problem rather than a technical or product-development constraint, while also reducing DeepMind's autonomy as the lab faces pressure to deliver competitive AI products faster.