Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of Google DeepMind, attends a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony in Seoul on April 27. Alphabet Inc.'s Google is losing some of its most prominent artificial intelligence veterans in a seismic overhaul that is casting doubt over leadership in a critical area of growth right as competition intensifies. Alphabet shares fell 4% on the news. Jeff Dean, a longtime Google employee central to the development of the company's AI strategy, is departing to launch a startup, taking several high-profile colleagues with him. Demis Hassabis, the head of Google DeepMind, is moving into a chairman role at the lab.

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The luxury automaker is beaming a ad into its cars. What does a roughly $100,000 BMW 7 Series get you? With a few taps on the sedan's massive touch screen, you can play or let the car park itself. Last week, BMW added a new feature to its infotainment system: When drivers start up their car, they are greeted by the following message: "Surprise! Spider-Man just dropped on your BMW!" Click on the prompt, which appears in most BMWs made after 2020, and the touch screen is taken over by a commercial for, the latest movie in the Marvel franchise.

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Are AI companies to blame? Last week, the internet raged as social-media posts and news articles accused AI companies of "destroying the world's books" --including "millions of rare" ones--by chopping off their spines to scan them more easily, and discarding them afterward. One article said the news was "sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed." The investor and AI skeptic Michael Burry called the practice of sacrificing rare books "evil incarnate." Even Elon Musk weighed in, posting that he had asked the engineers training xAI's models to "preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way."

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