Sergey Brin wants more from Google’s AI engineers. A lot more. In a memo sent to staff working on Gemini late last winter, the Google co-founder laid out a simple formula for victory in the race toward artificial general intelligence. Show up at the office every weekday. Clock 60 hours a week. That, he declared, hits the sweet spot for output. Anything less drags the team down. Anything more courts burnout. “Competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to A.G.I. is afoot,” Brin wrote, according to The New York Times . “I think we have all the ingredients to win this race, but we are going to have to turbocharge our efforts.” The message landed like a splash of cold water across a company still adjusting to hybrid schedules. Google’s official policy calls for three days in the office each week. Brin pushed for five. No formal rule change followed. Yet the note signaled his growing impatience with the pace of progress.…