An early member of Google's generative AI team says it's too late to get a Ph.D. to cash in on the AI hype

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Jad Tarifi, wearing a white shirt and suit, is posing in front of the Tokyo Tower.
Jad Tarifi, 42, joined Google in 2012 and spent nearly a decade with the search giant.

Jad Tarifi

Elon Musk says Google has the best shot at being the leader in AI

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Elon Musk is wearing a DOGE T-shirt and looking ahead.
Elon Musk said Google "currently has the highest probability of being the leader" in AI because it has the "biggest compute (and data) advantage for now."

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Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple over Grok's App Store ranking and escalating his feud with OpenAI

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"Unfortunately, what choice do we have? Apple didn't just put their thumb on the scale, they put their whole body!" Elon Musk wrote on X on Monday.

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Mark Cuban is lauding Trump for how the POTUS has handled China and Nvidia

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Mark Cuban speaking onstage at a conference at the Austin Convention Center.
"That is the ULTIMATE wealth tax," Mark Cuban said following reports that Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the US government 15% of their China chip sale revenues.

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Mark Cuban says the US has got to keep investing in research if it wants to have a chance of beating China at AI

Tech Insider : Business, Crypto
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"We need our Ph.D.s, our scientists, our experts to stay here and contribute to society, and their IP to make American AI models the global leaders," Mark Cuban told Business Insider on Sunday.

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Sam Altman says he's 'uneasy' about people trusting their biggest life decisions to ChatGPT

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Sam Altman speaking at a conference in San Francisco, California.
"I can imagine a future where a lot of people really trust ChatGPT's advice for their most important decisions. Although that could be great, it makes me uneasy," Sam Altman wrote on X on Sunday.

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A Meta manager explains how she thinks about hiring: curiosity and constant learning matter more than a degree

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Cindy Tan signing books at a table.
Cindy Tan, a managing director at Meta, says that getting a degree is just "table stakes" when it comes to excelling in your career.

Cindy Tan

Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda take a big hit from Trump's tariffs

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A close-up of the Toyota logo on a vehicle.
Toyota said it expects tariffs to lower its operating income by 1.4 trillion Japanese yen, or $9.5 billion, for the 2026 fiscal year.

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Paul Graham's guide to how you can save your job from AI

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"It may be a mistake to ask which occupations are most safe from being taken by AI," Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, wrote on X on Tuesday.

Y Combinator

Former OpenAI board member said companies are going to start trying to poach Meta's new AI hires from day one

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Mark Zuckerberg speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC.
"It'll be difficult. There's a lot of organizational politics at play," Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member, on whether Meta's new AI hires will pay off.

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