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Google Missed Its Own Deadline. Again. And Four Researchers Just Left.
Gemini 3.5 Pro missed its June GA window as Q2 closes today. Four senior Gemini researchers announced they're joining Anthropic the same week. The timing is the story.
The Nobel Laureate Who Joined Anthropic Mid-Crisis
John Jumper, the AlphaFold creator who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic, while Fable 5 was still offline under a US export ban.
Google Lost the Transformer's Co-Author. Then AlphaFold. Same Week.
Noam Shazeer, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," left Google for OpenAI on June 18. Days later, Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic. Both exits land at once.
Google's DiffusionGemma Generates Text Sideways
Google released DiffusionGemma, a 26B open model that generates entire text blocks in parallel using diffusion, not token-by-token prediction. It's 4x faster and worse. That's the interesting part.
Google Wants AI to Run the Scientific Method
Google launched Gemini for Science at I/O 2026, a suite of agentic tools designed to generate hypotheses, run computational experiments, and query 30+ biology databases. Demis Hassabis said we're at "the foothills of the singularity."
Google Just Declared Android Is No Longer an OS
Google's Gemini Intelligence reframes Android not as a platform you use but as an agent that acts for you. That's a meaningful shift — and a bet worth watching closely.