Culture & Society

Google loses $270B in market cap over concerns its ‘falling behind’ rivals in race for AI talent

Google lost senior research scientist and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper, who announced late Friday he was exiting DeepMind AI lab for a role at Anthropic. That news came just days after another key executive Noam Shazeer, who served as co-lead of Google’s flagship Gemini AI mode.

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Brimstone Report is tracking this as a curated culture & society brief. The source report from NY Post says: Google lost senior research scientist and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper, who announced late Friday he was exiting DeepMind AI lab for a role at Anthropic. That news came just days after another key executive Noam Shazeer, who served as co-lead of Google’s flagship Gemini AI mode.

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  • Primary source: NY Post
  • Published: Jun 22, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC
  • Coverage area: Culture & Society
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