Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation

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Greg Brockman, OpenAI's President, reflected on the tktk-day period when CEO Sam Altman was removed from his duties.

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Meta is forming a new AI engineering org for its superintelligence push, with teams as large as 50 people per manager

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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2 founding members of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab quietly left for Meta

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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xAI is hiring an 'elite unit' that reports directly to Elon Musk to recruit top engineers

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xAI is revamping its hiring strategy.

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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.

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