Claim · 2025-04-02 · snapshot · Stated in source · Supported

9to5Google reported on 2 April 2025, relaying Semafor, that Josh Woodward was taking over Sissie Hsiao’s role leading the Gemini app while remaining VP of Google Labs.

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Josh Woodward → held role at → Gemini app team

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Claim and evidence

Josh Woodwardheld role at ↓Gemini app team

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Supporting evidence: secondary · 2 sources

Date: 2025-04-02 · snapshot Records dated 2025 →
Activity stage: announced
Role: taking over the Gemini app leadership role (Vice President and General Manager, Gemini app and Speech, as held by his predecessor)

Scope and limitsThe record rests on reporting: Semafor, which cites staff memos it reviewed (not published), and 9to5Google, which follows Semafor. The reports do not give Woodward’s own new title; the record does not establish a start date or a continuing role.

Rests on reportingNo primary source supports this record; its supporting passages come from reporting.

The evidence 02

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Gemini app gets new boss as it enters ‘chapter 2’

9to5Google · 2025-04-02

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Source excerpt

“Josh Woodward (right, above) is taking over Hsiao’s role, while remaining VP of Google Labs”

Location in source Paragraph 6

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: 9to5Google
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 07c42c610866e55d6d637417f09d04c81f62c024531b4d784586a40c896e0920) directly from the publisher.
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: 9to5Google, “Gemini app gets new boss as it enters ‘chapter 2’”, 2025-04-02.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (15 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L060) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

Google Gemini shakes up AI leadership, Sissie Hsiao steps down, replaced by Josh Woodward

Semafor · 2025-04-02

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Source excerpt

“Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs … will replace her”

Location in source The Scoop, paragraph 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Reed Albergotti
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 c41af4d36be3a28a4c6427b887a0ce8a03739818c936ef8004da231d19c4545b) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Reed Albergotti, “Google Gemini shakes up AI leadership, Sissie Hsiao steps down, replaced by Josh Woodward”, 2025-04-02.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (10 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. Abridged quotation: the ellipses mark omitted words, so it is not one continuous string. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L060) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

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Record ID lg2-gm-woodward-gemini-app-2025