cold open: google campus. a conference room named “moonshot serenity 4b.” twelve people are in a meeting titled: pre-sync for sync alignment on ai velocity. sundar sits calmly at the head of the table. a pm clicks to slide 1 of 187. “the agenda today is simple,” she says. “how do we move faster while preserving our culture of not doing that?” everyone nods. then the door opens. noam shazeer walks in. the room goes silent. noam: “i’m leaving.” a vp of gemini reliability, brand, trust,…