Alphabet shares fell 1.3% in premarket trading following reports of high-level staff departures.
Lead researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google’s Gemini AI team to join competitor Anthropic. Their exit extends a recent trend of top artificial intelligence talent leaving the company.
The news deepened a selloff in Alphabet stock that began earlier this week. Investors are signaling concern over Google’s competitive standing against rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.