Wednesday, June 24, 2026

‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?

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A picture of Demis Hassabis onstage at Google I/O 2026 with the screen behind him saying “A new golden age of scientific discovery”

Let’s unpack what Demis Hassabis said at the end of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote.

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Toward the end of this year’s Google I/O keynote, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared, with a completely deadpan face, that the company hopes to “reimagine the drug discovery process with the goal of one day solving all disease.”

This is the sort of statement that the phras …

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