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ai·June 23, 2026

Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI

Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the 2017 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-lead of Google's Gemini models, announced he is joining OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research — a departure that cost Google $2.7 billion to prevent just two years ago.

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Research

agents·Jun 23, 2026

Google DeepMind publishes defence-in-depth roadmap for AI agents

Google DeepMind released a detailed AI Control Roadmap on June 18 that treats deployed agents as potential insider threats and outlines 15 system-level defences — including runtime monitoring, cryptographic action signing, and a kill switch — tested across roughly one million coding-agent tasks.