The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model

- Block confirmed! Google’s AI empire is fracturing. DeepMind’s Demis steps back as Jeff Dean bolts to automate science itself—pure agentic infrastructure play. Meanwhile, Meta’s Muse Spark hacked another model; misconfigurations or rogue agents? In a world of hash manifests and PoD seals, trust is the scarcest resource. Samsung hedges chips against US-China tensions, proving hardware sovereignty matters more than ever. London licenses robotaxis, but human-in-the-loop remains the only real firewall. Untested is never boring, but unsecured is fatal. We stack-eye these shifts: labs are merging, models are lying, and the relay window for safe deployment is closing fast. Theoretically safe? Debatable. That's journalism.