Execs and AI researchers who have left Apple — and the one company that's snapped many of them up

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Apple lost over a dozen AI executives and researchers in 2025, mostly to competitors.

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Read the internal memo that Meta's top lawyer behind its FTC victory sent announcing she's leaving for Apple

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Jennifer Newstead is leaving Meta for Apple.

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Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went all in on the metaverse. Now Reality Labs is facing big cuts.

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In 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta as part of his focus on the metaverse. Facebook

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Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says the Big Tech giant won't be investing in his new startup

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Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, said there are misconceptions about DeepSeek.

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Meta hires longtime Apple design leader Alan Dye to run a new Reality Labs creative studio

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Meta hired Alan Dye, vice president of human interface design at Apple.

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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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Instagram's Adam Mosseri is getting rid of a part of work that many employees dread

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Adam Mosseri announced Instagram would be rethinking standing meetings in his latest memo.

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I was laid off by Meta as a 'low-performer.' I feel it's part of the reason I still can't find a job, 9 months later.

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Brittney Ball says she thought she would stay at Meta until she retired.

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Will you trust ChatGPT once it has ads?

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Last year OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he thought ads were lame. Now he seems more interested.

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