11 executives and researchers who left Google in 2025 — mostly for Microsoft

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Google lost AI and cloud employees to rivals, mainly Microsoft, in 2025.

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12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab

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OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer.

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OpenAI's chief researcher says Mark Zuckerberg 'hand-delivered soup' to an employee in a recruiting effort

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Stories have floated about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally delivering soup to poach employees at Sam Altman's OpenAI, according to OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen.

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Databricks CEO says AI talent war has put 'too much pressure' on young people

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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said that the AI talent war has made for "crazy times" for young people.

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Mark Zuckerberg said there are very few 'seats on the boat' of his AI lab, which doesn't have top-down deadlines

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Mark Zuckerberg compared Meta's superintelligence lab to a boat with "precious" seats and a group science project.

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Inside Amazon's 'hardcore' culture reset

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is reshaping how Amazon works.

Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war. This internal document reveals why.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy

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Ex-OpenAI VP says the AI talent war has made the pay gulf 'wider and wider' — and will lead to 'second-order effects'

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TK said that salary gaps are getting wider.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs is already losing key staff less than two months after launch

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Mark Zuckerberg was seen wearing a Greubel Forsey 'Hand Made 1' on his left wrist while announcing the end of the Meta's US fact-checking partnerships on Tuesday.

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Meta raids Google DeepMind and Scale AI for its all-star superintelligence team

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Mark Zuckerberg is the richest billionaire in California

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