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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's issue is a special early edition tied to The...

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‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
Source: The Verge
A picture of Demis Hassabis onstage at Google I/O 2026 with the screen behind him saying “A new golden age of scientific discovery”
Let’s unpack what Demis Hassabis said at the end of yesterday’s Google I/O keynote.

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. This week's issue is a special early edition tied to The Verge's Google I/O coverage. You can expect our next issue at its usual time next Friday. Opt in for Optimizer here.

Toward the end of this year's Google I/O keynote, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared, with a completely deadpan face, that the company hopes to "reimagine the drug discovery process with the goal of one day solving all disease."

This is the sort of statement that the phras …

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