{"id":121367,"date":"2026-07-14T10:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/london-rule-that-explains-why-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic-openai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:36:05","slug":"london-rule-that-explains-why-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/london-rule-that-explains-why-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;London Rule&#8217; that explains why AI researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic &amp; OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four senior AI researchers have left Google DeepMind in under two weeks, joining rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. The common thread isn&#8217;t pay\u2014it&#8217;s London. UK non-compete rules, enforceable unlike in California, explain why Nobel laureate John Jumper won&#8217;t start at Anthropic until next year. With compute shifting to Mountain View and pre-IPO equity on offer, Google&#8217;s London research bench is quietly draining westward.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four senior AI researchers have left Google DeepMind in under two weeks, joining rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. The common thread isn&#8217;t pay\u2014it&#8217;s London. UK non-compete rules, enforceable unlike in California, explain why Nobel laureate John Jumper won&#8217;t start at Anthropic until next year. With compute shifting to Mountain View and pre-IPO equity on offer, Google&#8217;s&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/london-rule-that-explains-why-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-for-anthropic-openai\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;London Rule&#8217; that explains why AI researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic &amp; OpenAI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":121368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}