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Two researcher departures cost a company $250 billion

development2026-06-24

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Alphabet had its worst day in over a year, losing $250 billion after Noam Shazeer and Nobel laureate John Jumper defected to OpenAI and Anthropic, while the White House pressed Meta, the last holdout, to submit models for federal safety review.

Reported metric: -$250B

Reporting date: 2026-06-24 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 24, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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An AlphaFold Nobel laureate leaves for a rival lab

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Two researcher departures cost a company $250 billion
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-24
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-24-a-quarter-trillion-lost-to-two-departures
Claim: Alphabet had its worst day in over a year, losing $250 billion after Noam Shazeer and Nobel laureate John Jumper defected to OpenAI and Anthropic, while the White House pressed Meta, the last holdout, to submit models for federal safety review.
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- Welcome to June 24, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-24-2026
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