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TL;DR - Google is consolidating its AI decision-making power from London into its Mountain View headquarters, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over Google DeepMind's day-to-day operations from Demis Hassabis, while reportedly negotiating a $1.5B+ deal for startup Mechanize's coding technology and talent. It matters because it signals Google treating cross-Atlantic coordination lag and AI-coding weakness as urgent bottlenecks in the race against OpenAI and Anthropic.

• Gemini post-training teams — responsible for final model tuning before release — are being centralized at the California HQ, ending a setup that spanned 8 time zones and hundreds of internal chat groups since the 2023 Brain/DeepMind merger.
• Leadership reshuffle: Hassabis moves to DeepMind chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist (long-term research, AGI strategy, Isomorphic Labs); Kavukcuoglu, already relocated from London in 2025 as Chief AI Architect/SVP, now runs GDM operations reporting to Pichai, with Sergey Brin monitoring progress on-site.
• Google is reportedly in talks for a non-exclusive license to Mechanize's technology plus acqui-hiring core staff for over $1.5B, targeting AI coding where Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor lead despite Google owning Gemini, TPUs, Cloud, and developer distribution.
• Reporting is sourced to Bloomberg, The Information, and Business Insider; the Mechanize deal is described as under negotiation, not closed. Mechanize was founded by Tamay Besiroglu (also Epoch AI), Matthew Barnett, and Ege Erdil.