Category: Markets
Published: 2026-06-22T16:15:18.000Z
Alphabet's stock tumbled 6% after two senior AI researchers departed for competitors. A Nobel Prize-winning researcher from Google DeepMind who co-created AlphaFold joined Anthropic, while Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering and co-lead of Gemini AI models, also left recently. The $250 billion market cap loss raises questions about whether individual employees justify such valuation impacts, though the departures may signal investor concerns about Alphabet's competitive position in AI.
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