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Alphabet Shares Slide 4% After CEO Shuffle, $150B TPU Outlook

8/7/2026

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Summary

Alphabet Leaders Depart

Demis Hassabis stepped down as DeepMind CEO to become chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, heading Isomorphic Labs.
Jeff Dean left Alphabet after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, with Alphabet providing investment and cloud support.
Alphabet’s shares fell more than 4% after the leadership announcements, erasing part of a rally that had risen 13% since the last earnings report.

Summary

Google Projects Surge

Google projects its TPU backlog of over $150 billion will push GCP’s 2027 growth rate into the mid-100 % range, far above the consensus of 64 %.
It expects to add more than $250 billion of TPU bookings to GCP’s revenue-pending-order, which could raise 2027 earnings per share by $3.
Although TPU sales earn EBIT margins in the low-30 % range, Google forecasts GCP EBIT margins to stay in the mid-to-high-30 % band.

History

Historical Context

DeepMind, founded in November 2010 by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, was bought by Google on 26 January 2014 for roughly $400 million. The purchase gave Alphabet the reinforcement-learning platform that produced AlphaGo in 2016 and AlphaFold in 2020, and it later opened an ethics unit in 2017 and partnered with the NHS in 2015, laying groundwork for the company’s expanding AI-hardware ambitions.

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Alphabet Leaders Depart

Demis Hassabis stepped down as DeepMind CEO to become chairman and Alphabet chief scientist, heading Isomorphic Labs.
Jeff Dean left Alphabet after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, with Alphabet providing investment and cloud support.
Alphabet’s shares fell more than 4% after the leadership announcements, erasing part of a rally that had risen 13% since the last earnings report.

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