GOOG - Alphabet Inc.
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A series of high-profile AI moves in recent weeks has upped the ante in the race for top talent. The difference this time?
In the closing of the recent trading day, Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) stood at $348.71, denoting a -5.1% move from the preceding trading day.
The latest trading day saw Alphabet (GOOGL) settling at $349.56, representing a -5.02% change from its previous close.
Expand NASDAQ: GOOGL Alphabet Today's Change (-4.98%) $-18.33 Current Price $349.70 Key Data Points Market Cap $4.5T Day's Range $341.73 - $358.77 52wk Range $162.00 - $408.61 Volume 1.9M Avg Vol 30M Gross Margin 60.43% Dividend Yield 0.23% Alphabet (GOOGL 4.98%), a global search, ads, cloud, and AI platform, closed at $348.78, down 5.08%. Shares fell after reports that another AI leader left for a rival and amid legal and regulatory headlines.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.29%) rose 0.29% to 51,712.71 as investors favored defensive blue chip names, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC 0.37%) slipped 0.37% to 7,472.79 and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 1.32%) fell 1.32% to 26,166.60 following a retreat in mega-cap technology stocks.
A newer member of Congress may be the next to be closely monitored for their trading activity after recently selling off multiple Magnificent Seven stocks.
Google lost senior research scientist and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper, who announced late Friday he was exiting DeepMind AI lab for a role at Anthropic. That news came just days after another key executive Noam Shazeer, who served as co-lead of Google's flagship Gemini AI models, ditched the company for a role at OpenAI.
Alphabet's big stock drop was spurred by a Google DeepMind scientist who is leaving for Anthropic. His departure is a blow to Alphabet's AI initiatives.
The Trump administration has been increasingly wary about China's breakneck pace in AI development – with officials warning as recently as recently as April that China was engaged in “industrial-scale” efforts to rip off AI technology.
A new alliance has formed between a Hollywood studio and a tech juggernaut.
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) shares fell 5.5% on Monday after the company lost two of its most prominent artificial intelligence researchers to rivals, raising concerns about a brain drain at the heart of its AI ambitions. Noam Shazeer, Google DeepMind's vice president of engineering and co-lead of the Gemini AI models, has left to join OpenAI.
Stanley Druckenmiller sold his entire Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG | GOOG Price Prediction) stake in the first quarter of 2026 and rotated the proceeds into SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK), Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX), Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO), and Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM).
The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF is down about 9% from its record high in mid May.
Google DeepMind and independent movie studio A24 entered into a partnership to explore how AI can support filmmakers and creative professionals, the companies said on Monday.
Nvidia has largely had the data center GPU market to itself, but the competition is ramping up. Alphabet and Amazon have each taken recent steps to steal market share from the leader.
The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.2% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average quietly gained 0.4%. SpaceX dropped 10.3%, its worst day since the June 12 IPO.
Two AI leaders, including a Nobel laureate, recently said they would leave Google for rival labs.
As Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) navigates an intensifying battle for Artificial Intelligence (AI) talent, Citizens analyst Andrew Boone has issued his 12-month rating for the Google share price.
Alphabet shares slid 7%, on track for the search giant's worst day in a year. Alphabet company Google has seen consecutive high-profile researchers leave in the last several days.