Jeff Dean Quits Google to Automate the Very Thing OpenAI Just Claimed

In a single 24-hour news cycle, the same capability — AI doing AI and science research itself — was commercialized, demonstrated, feared, and empirically doubted. Jeff Dean left Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup built around automating the research loop, on the same day Google reshuffled its AI leadership. OpenAI said an internal model produced ten new math results for roughly $2,000 in compute, releasing formal proof certificates for verification. More than a thousand frontier-lab employees signed a letter asking governments to help deliberately pace AI development over fears of runaway self-improvement. And two Princeton researchers published a study finding that AI agents still can't run open-ended research on their own — rejected paper ...