Topic: talent acquisition
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Meta Pauses AI Hiring After Aggressive Recruiting Spree
Meta has implemented a temporary hiring freeze in its AI division following a recent restructuring and after recruiting over 50 AI researchers and engineers from competitors. The freeze is part of routine organizational planning and budget assessment, coinciding with the company's annual budgetin...
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Meta Hires OpenAI Scientist to Head AI Lab
Meta has recruited Yang Song from OpenAI to lead its Superintelligence Labs, part of an aggressive hiring campaign that has attracted top researchers from firms like Google and Anthropic. Song specialized in enhancing AI models for complex datasets at OpenAI and contributed to the development of ...
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Meta's AI Exodus: Zuckerberg's Hires Threaten to Quit
Meta's aggressive hiring of top AI talent from firms like OpenAI has led to internal friction and early departures due to cultural and leadership challenges. High-profile recruits, including former OpenAI employees, are struggling to adapt and assert influence within Meta's established corporate ...
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Amazon AGI Labs Chief Explains His Reverse Acquihire Strategy
Amazon introduced a "reverse acquihire" by hiring Adept's founders and licensing its technology, focusing on talent and IP rather than a full acquisition. David Luan, now leading Amazon's AGI Lab, joined to address key research problems in achieving artificial general intelligence, valuing access...
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Meta's Next Big Bet: Humanoid Robots
Meta is making a multi-billion dollar strategic investment in humanoid robotics, viewing it as a priority on par with augmented reality and led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and CTO Andrew Bosworth. The company's primary focus is on overcoming the software challenge for dexterous manipulation, not hardw...
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Mark Cuban Would Still Dine With Donald Trump
Mark Cuban advocates for open AI development, arguing that rapid technological obsolescence makes secrecy counterproductive and that companies should share research freely. He emphasizes the urgency of accelerating AI development to maintain American competitiveness against China, while acknowled...
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BCG: Quantum Computing to Unlock $50B+ in Industry Value
Quantum computing could generate over $50 billion in value across industries, with major opportunities in energy and transportation, including up to $30 billion in savings for oil and gas operations. The technology poses significant cybersecurity risks, threatening current encryption and enabling...
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Hits $12B Valuation in Seed Round
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, raised $2 billion in seed funding, reaching a $12 billion valuation, with backing from major investors like Andreessen Horowitz and NVIDIA. The startup, less than a year old, has attracted top AI talent and plans to launch a product soo...
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Intuit's AI Playbook: Ditch Chatbots for Agentic AI
Intuit shifted from basic chatbots to agentic AI, focusing on proactive, workflow-embedded automation rather than just conversation, which required both technological and organizational transformation. The company restructured around a builder culture, high-velocity iteration, and an internal AI ...
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