Five senior Google DeepMind researchers announced their departures for rival AI labs within the span of a single week in June 2026, triggering Alphabet’s steepest single-day stock decline in over a year and raising pointed questions about whether the company can retain the scientists behind its most significant AI breakthroughs. The exits include Nobel Prize winner John Jumper (to Anthropic), Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer (to OpenAI), AI coding re…
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