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The Economist8h
Mark Zuckerberg is spending megabucks on an AI hiring spree
Someone who knows all three men calls the trio “the avengers”. He reckons they will have huge additional sums at their ...
Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staff $100 million bonuses, as Mark Zuckerberg ramps up AI poaching efforts
While Meta had sought to hire "a lot of people" from OpenAI, "so far none of our best people have decided to take them up on ...
Alexandr Wang Scales Up: Why Mark Zuckerberg Picked a Founder to Fuel His AI Ambitions
Here’s what Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang knows that Meta doesn’t.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI joins Google, Microsoft in ‘cutting ties’ with ScaleAI after Mark Zuckerberg paid it billions
OpenAI is reducing its reliance on Scale AI. This follows Meta's major investment in Scale AI. Meta also hired Scale AI's ...
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly recruiting a team to build a ‘superintelligence’
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally assembling a team to achieve a “superintelligence,” machines that are capable of ...
Mark Zuckerberg has an AI talent problem—but money alone is unlikely to solve it
Zuckerberg is throwing pro-athlete-level salaries at top AI researchers. But for many, prestige, trust, and tribal loyalties ...
How Mark Zuckerberg unleashed his inner brawler
Zuckerberg was spoiling for a fight. The day before, he’d suffered an egregious snub from Joe Biden’s White House, when he had not been invited to a summit of “AI leaders”, billed as a meeting of ...
Nieman Journalism Lab23h
Mark Zuckerberg’s privacy goof reveals how people really use AI chatbots
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