Dean has pretty big symbolic importance inside of Google regardless of what his role title is/was Edit: sibling story in front page links to this which explain

Dean has pretty big symbolic importance inside of Google regardless of what his role title is/was Edit: sibling story in front page links to this which explains better in its lede text than what I just wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researc...