Broke story on Google AI researcher departures to Anthropic; covers talent dynamics and compute politics at hyperscalers.
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Senior researchers Jonas Adler (AI coding) and Alexander Pretzel (pretraining) left for Anthropic; compute resources shifted before Noam Shazeer's departure, suggesting internal political struggles over scarce compute that could slow Gemini development.