Departures of Star AI Researchers Spotlight Google's Internal Frictions

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson argued on July 1 that a string of high-profile researcher departures at Google reflects internal power struggles and bureaucracy—not a lack of technology—that are sapping the company's AI momentum, as she wrote. The column contends that while Google (Alphabet) briefly caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic by shipping Gemini 3 in 2025, it has since been slipping behind in AI coding. The cause, she says, is not engineering capability but a "confounding tangle of red tape."