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The reassignment is part of broader organizational changes that have the effect of making DeepMind—which Google acquired in 2014 and has functioned as a semiautonomous operation—more tightly integrated with the rest of the company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the years following its acquisition by Google, the London-based DeepMind primarily functioned as an independent research entity instead of a integrated product unit.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Although companies describe them as decision-support tools, she said they often functioned as "automated decision-making systems".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
It was also uncertain whether rapamycin worked by gradually repairing brain structure or by producing faster changes in how brain circuits functioned.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The Americas, despite their large aggregate area, were fragmented by geography and ecology and functioned effectively as several poorly connected smaller continents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
