In the biggest news of this week, Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind, Google’s London-based AI research centre, has just been appointed to head up Microsoft’s new ‘consumer AI’ unit. From Ars Technica:

Suleyman, a British entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in London in 2010, will report to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella, the company announced on Tuesday. He will launch a division of Microsoft that brings consumer-facing products including Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, Edge, and GenAI under one team called Microsoft AI.

Microsoft AI. We should have seen that coming.

Read the full report here.