Why Alphabet Stock Just Crashed

Alphabet's stock tumbled 6% after two senior AI researchers departed for competitors. A Nobel Prize-winning researcher from Google DeepMind who co-created AlphaFold joined Anthropic, while Noam Shazeer, VP of Engineering and co-lead of Gemini AI models, also left recently. The $250 billion market cap loss raises questions about whether individual employees justify such valuation impacts, though the departures may signal investor concerns about Alphabet's competitive position in AI.