A decade of internal AI battles is finally catching up to Google
THE SO WHAT
Ten years of internal friction around DeepMind and core AI strategy shows how costly misaligned org charts can be when the tech becomes central to the business. If AI is now core to your roadmap, treat governance and P&L ownership as first-order design problems — not issues to clean up after the fact.
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