AI Industry & Drama — June 22, 2026

This Monday morning, a significant shake-up is rocking the AI world as Google's core AI talent, Noam Shazeer, has defected to OpenAI. Both eciks.org and 아시아경제 confirm Shazeer, a co-author of the foundational "attention" concept in large language models, is moving to OpenAI less than two years after Google spent an estimated $2.7 billion to rehire him. He will research next-generation AI models, raising concerns about Google's generative AI leadership. But then, the drama doesn't stop there. Mul