The Nobel prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, Google’s AI unit, announced this week he was relinquishing his day-to-day duties as chief executive and becoming chair. Earlier this year, a former Google DeepMind employee launched a legal challenge against Google, claiming they were unfairly dismissed for their views on Gaza. Another Google DeepMind employee resigned from the company in mid-July, citing Google’s work with the Pentagon and the US Department of Homeland Security. Google DeepMind “has become just another subdivision of Google”, they added. Google’s two AI labs, London-based DeepMind and California-based Google Brain, were merged into Google DeepMind under Hassabis’s leadership three years ago.