Google Just Dismantled Its Nobel-Winning AI Team. That Should Terrify You.
Google DeepMind is dismantling its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team to scatter researchers across product divisions. This isn’t a reorganization โ it’s a declaration that even the most celebrated scientific achievement in modern AI is subordinate to the product roadmap. The era of curiosity-driven research is dying, and we won’t notice the loss until it’s too late.