Google Stock Drops 7% After Two AI Researchers Quit

Alphabet shares fell about 7% on Monday, their worst day in roughly a year, after Google lost two high-profile AI leaders in days. Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering and co-lead of the Gemini AI models, left for OpenAI. The departures threaten Google's AI talent narrative amid competition with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft.