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How I Decided Whether to Keep Building on Google's AI Tools After the DeepMind Shake-Up

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Google reshuffled its entire AI leadership this week, and the person whose name carries the most history — Jeff Dean, the engineer behind half of what made Google Google — now works somewhere that isn’t Google. If you build anything on Gemini, NotebookLM, or Google’s AI features inside Workspace, you probably felt the same question I did: is this the beginning of the end, or just org-chart noise? I gave myself 20 minutes to answer it properly instead of doom-scrolling, and the process is worth stealing. ...

October 26, 2026 · 5 min · 894 words · Manal
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