From HR Director to Chief People Officer: Mapping the career journey to the top

From HR Director to Chief People Officer: Mapping the career journey to the top Summary Progressing to the Chief People Officer (CPO) role requires more than functional HR expertise. The piece argues CPOs must bring commercial fluency, a strategic mindset that aligns people with business performance, and ideally board-level exposure. Key building blocks include early […]

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A 26-year-old Google DeepMind researcher explains how he broke his perfectionist streak and got into leadership

A 26-year-old Google DeepMind researcher explains how he broke his perfectionist streak and got into leadership Summary Neel Nanda, 26, who leads the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind, says he overcame longstanding perfectionism by deliberately saying yes to more opportunities. He forced himself to produce more work (notably a month of daily blog posts) […]

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Pitch deck: Hiverge raises $5 million to optimize algorithms with AI

Pitch deck: Hiverge raises $5 million to optimise algorithms with AI Summary Hiverge, a Cambridge-based startup founded by former Google DeepMind scientists, has raised $5 million in seed funding to commercialise an AI-driven platform that automates algorithm design. The team — including ex-DeepMind engineers who worked on AlphaEvolve and a University of Cambridge professor — […]

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