On June 25, 2026, Jack Henry and Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google Cloud announced an expanded collaboration to deliver AI-driven security capabilities for banks and credit unions. Jack Henry will use Google Cloud’s “agentic defense products” to build a proprietary AI security platform for the financial services ecosystem. The company said the initiative is aimed at strengthening cyber resilience for financial institutions while improving operational efficiency.

Also on June 25, two artificial intelligence researchers at Google were planning to leave for Anthropic, Bloomberg’s Julia Love, Natasha Mascarenhas, and Rachel Metz reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, described as key contributors to Google’s Gemini AI model, are set to move to the maker of Claude. The report also noted that Google had recently lost John Jumper to Anthropic and Noam Shazeer to OpenAI.

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On June 24, Argus kept a Buy rating and $440 price target on Alphabet, citing strong results, investments in compute infrastructure and generative AI, rapid growth at Google Cloud and YouTube, and what it views as an attractive valuation.

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) offers products and platforms across Google Services, Google Cloud, and others.

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