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Alphabet Slides 7% After AI Execs Jump to Rivals

6/23/2026

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  • Alphabet Inc.’s shares fell up to about 7% on June 22, 2026 after Noam Shazeer announced he was joining OpenAI.
  • John Jumper announced he was moving from DeepMind to Anthropic, prompting further market pressure.
  • The plunge threatened to erase $270 billion in market value and marked the biggest intraday decline since February.
  • Google signaled plans to spend $180 billion to $190 billion in fiscal 2026 on AI compute and data-center capacity.