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Demis Hassabis on his rush to ‘solve all disease’ and Isomorphic’s new $2.1 billion We’re always running out of time, but that’s something Demis Hassabis reckons with more than most.

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Demis Hassabis on his rush to ‘solve all disease’ and Isomorphic’s new $2.1 billion We’re always running out of time, but that’s something Demis Hassabis reckons with more than most.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: Google has laid off emlpoyees in its Cloud division, including staff at its Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Google has laid off emlpoyees in its Cloud division, including staff at its Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant”
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Multiple independent sources (Flipboard, Business Insider via Facebook, and other web reports) confirm layoffs in Google's Cloud division, specifically mentioning the Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gemini (also known as Google Gemini and formerly known as Bard) is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot and virtual assistant developed by Google. It is powered by the family of large language…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Gemini
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google Security Operations (a.k.a. Google SecOps), formerly Google Chronicle Security Operations, is a cybersecurity company which is part of the Google Cloud Platform. It is a cloud service, built as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Security_Operations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ShinyHunters is a black-hat criminal hacker and extortion group that has been active since 2019 and is said to have been involved in a significant number of data breaches. ShinyHunters has utilized c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinyHunters
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Claim 2: “Demis Hassabis is Google DeepMind CEO”
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Wikipedia and multiple cross-references explicitly state that Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir Demis Hassabis (/ˈdɛ.mɪs/ DE-mis /hɑːˈsɑː.bis/ hah-SAH-bees; born Dimitrios Hassapis, Greek: Δημήτριος Χασάπης, 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Google DeepMind, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British-American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Veo, or Google Veo, is a text-to-video model developed by Google DeepMind and announced in May 2024. As a generative AI model, it creates videos based on user prompts. Veo 3, released in May 2025, can…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veo_(text-to-video_model)
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Claim 3: “Isomorphic’s new $2.1 billion”
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Three independent web sources (Bloomberg, NLS, and another news report) confirm that Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1 billion in a Series B funding round.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Series B funding will be used to power the company’s AI drug design engine, scale its business globally and progress its drug candidate pipeline.
https://nordiclifescience.org/british-isomorphic-labs-secure…
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web search NEUTRAL — Isomorphic Labs announced on Wednesday it has raised $2.1 billion in a Series B funding round, as the Alphabet $GOOGL-backed AI drug design company moves to expand its pipeline and bring candidates cl…
https://qz.com/isomorphic-labs-series-b-funding-ai-drug-disc…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet Inc.’s Isomorphic Labs raised $2.1 billion in its second round of outside capital, with new support from sovereign wealth funds, as it seeks to make artificial intelligence-designed drugs a r…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/deepmind-…
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Claim 4: “Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April”
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Multiple independent sources (Flipboard, India Today, and other web reports) confirm that Uber exhausted its 2026 AI coding budget by April, with confirmation from CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Eats is an online food ordering and delivery platform launched by the ride-hailing company Uber in August 2014. It is one of the largest global food delivery services, competing with companies su…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_Eats
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uber Technologies, Inc. is an American multinational transportation company that provides ride-hailing services, courier services, food delivery, and freight transport. It is headquartered in San Fran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially contro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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Claim 5: “One company reportedly ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after forgetting to set usage limits”
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Multiple independent sources (Qovery Blog, Axios via Twitter/Web) report that an unnamed company ran up a $500 million Claude bill in one month due to a lack of usage limits.
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web search NEUTRAL — How a Single Client Burned $500 Million on Claude AI. According to a report from Axios, the consultant behind the story explained that unrestricted access across the entire organization triggered expl…
https://beincrypto.com/company-500-million-claude-ai-bill/
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web search NEUTRAL — Key points: An unnamed company burned through $500 million in Claude credits in a single month after failing to set any usage limits for employees. Uber engineers exhausted their entire 2026 AI budget…
https://www.qovery.com/blog/500-million-in-one-month-what-ha…
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web search NEUTRAL — A single company accidentally ran up a $500 million bill in one month on Anthropic's AI tools after failing to set usage limits on employee Claude licenses, an AI consultant told Axios. pic.twitter.co…
https://greekreporter.com/2026/06/01/company-accidentally-sp…
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Claim 6: “NASA briefly had five astronauts aboard the International Space Station shelter in a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Friday”
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The provided evidence contains general information about the ISS and SpaceX, but no specific report or news item confirming that five astronauts sheltered in a Crew Dragon due to leaks on a specific Friday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable, super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Currently built and launched from Starbase in Texas, it is intended as …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The process of assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s. Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. The STS-88 Space S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_International_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station in low Earth orbit (LEO). It is the product of the International Space Station program and is operated by five partner space agencies: NASA (Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
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Claim 7: “The Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher”
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The provided evidence does not confirm that Demis Hassabis has won a Nobel Prize. The Wikipedia results for 'List of Nobel laureates' and 'The Thinking Game' do not state he is a laureate; the web search results are irrelevant (discussing stopwatches).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir Demis Hassabis (/ˈdɛ.mɪs/ DE-mis /hɑːˈsɑː.bis/ hah-SAH-bees; born Dimitrios Hassapis, Greek: Δημήτριος Χασάπης, 27 July 1976) is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_cou…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Thinking Game is a 2024 documentary film directed by Greg Kohs. It follows Demis Hassabis and the Google DeepMind team as they solve the "grand challenge" of biology—the protein folding problem—us…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thinking_Game
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Claim 8: “Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licences six months after enabling them”
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Three independent web sources (The Verge and two other reports) confirm that Microsoft began canceling Claude Code licenses approximately six months after enabling them to push developers toward Copilot CLI.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... Microsoft has reportedly begun canceling most of its direct Claude Code licenses, according to The Verge, instead moving engineers toward using ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYzgItFPw3w/
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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... Thousands of devs got access. Six months later, they're shutting it down. Deadline is June 30th. The official reason? Toolchain unification. The ...
https://www.facebook.com/aitrendz.xyz1/posts/breaking-micros…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 14, 2026 ... I understand that Microsoft is planning to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push many of its developers to use Copilot CLI instead.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-d…
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