Alphabet Sheds ~$269B in Market Cap on AI Competitive and Talent Fears
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Reporting pegs Alphabet's market-cap loss at roughly $269 billion across sessions from June 18–24, described as one of the largest non-earnings-driven tech valuation hits in history. The decline tracks the senior Gemini researcher departures and intensifying coding-model competition from OpenAI and Anthropic. It's a market read on how fragile model-leadership narratives have become.