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In a January all-hands meeting, Google DeepMind leaders told employees the company would pursue more national security contracts, including cybersecurity and biosecurity. CEO Demis Hassabis said he was 'very comfortable' with the balance.
Google has reassigned staffers from Project Mariner, its Chrome browser AI agent, to higher-priority projects. The move comes as browser agent adoption stalls industrywide — Perplexity's Comet hit just 2.8 million weekly users, ChatGPT Agent fell below 1 million — while command-line agents like OpenClaw surge.
Google DeepMind appointed Jasjeet Sekhon, previously Chief Scientist at the world's largest hedge fund, as Chief Strategy Officer. The hire signals a hard pivot toward commercial deployment and real-world agent systems.