Agentic AI is dominating headlines. Yet for the frontrunners in the AI arms race, the omniscient eye of regulatory scrutiny is causing Big Tech to think outside the box to stay in contention but out of the heat. That is why Google is onboarding another wave of AI assets, quietly hiring staff from a little-known developer platform called Windsurf, with possible implications for Google TV and YouTube sooner than we think. According to reports, the deal involves tapping on the skillsets of Windsurf employees, focusing on advancing agentic coding in Google’s DeepMind division. Rather than a full-scale acquisition, Google is believed to be licensing Windsurf’s intellectual property and onboarding talent to avoid regulatory friction—an “acquihire” phenomenon seen increasingly among tech…