Google Lost 4 AlphaFold Researchers to Anthropic in 6 Days. The Market Wiped $270 Billion.

Four senior DeepMind researchers — all AlphaFold contributors — announced they're joining Anthropic this week, days after Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Alphabet's market cap dropped $270 billion. We cover what the exodus signals about where the frontier research community thinks the most important work is happening, Anthropic's Senate letter accusing Alibaba of 28.8 million distillation attack queries, and the ADP survey finding that daily AI users feel more engaged but less productive.

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