Google buys British start-up DeepMind Technologies

Artificial intelligence firm DeepMind have been snapped up by Google - the tech giant's largest European acquisition to date.

Google has bought London's DeepMind Technologies, a firm specialising in artificial intelligence, for around $500m. It is the technology giant's biggest European purchase to date.

DeepMind's technology has so far centred on e-commerce, simulations and games. The company was established by Demis Hassibis, a child chess prodigy who went into computer-game design before gaining a PhD in neuroscience.

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