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In a move that underscores the fierce competition for artificial intelligence (AI) talent, Ke Yang, a senior executive at Apple, has departed the company to join Meta Platforms Inc. This exit is the latest in a string of high-profile departures from Apple’s AI division, raising questions about the tech giant’s...

In a move that’s sparking conversations across the global tech community, Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab and one of the most respected figures in artificial intelligence, is officially joining Meta. This shift highlights the intensifying battle among tech giants to attract top AI minds as they race to...

In a major move in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, Meta named Yang Song, an ex-senior researcher at OpenAI, as the new research lead of its Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). The move highlights Meta's aggressive push to strengthen its AI capabilities and ratchets up competition among big tech players to...

Apple has been viewed for years as a quiet but influential player in artificial intelligence, hiding its research from the world as companies such as Google, OpenAI, and Meta release open models that show off how much progress they have made. But the company has suffered a notable setback: four...

In the latest turn in the race for supremacy in artificial intelligence, Meta has lured away two more star researchers from OpenAI, reinforcing the fierce battle for top AI talent among tech titans. The hires, not yet officially announced by the companies, are the latest in a series of high-profile...

In the escalating scramble to control the future of advanced artificial intelligence, a fresh chapter opened Sunday, when the CEO of OpenAI complained on Twitter that Meta, the tech behemoth previously known as Facebook, had been making “insane” compensation packages as part of efforts to poach OpenAI’s top AI talent....

In a high-octane talent battle that is transforming the field of artificial intelligence, Apple has become the lightning rod of California, where the hiring and retention of engineering rock stars is a blood sport. Its top AI engineer—a lynchpin in the company’s secretive machine learning and generative AI efforts—has jumped...

In a major shift in the artificial intelligence world, the long-sought acquisition of AI coding startup Windsurf by OpenAI is off. Adding another dramatic chapter to the deal’s dissolution, Windsurf’s CEO and some top researchers are now joining Google — turning heads in Silicon Valley and fueling speculation about what...

Meta Platforms, parent company of social media giant Facebook, has brought on the man who led Apple’s AI models, in a major jostle amidst Silicon Valley’s boisterous AI jamboree. The strategic maneuver reflects Meta’s ambitious quest for supremacy in the AI realm, particularly in an ongoing arms race among tech...

The latest disappointment for Apple came this week, when it had to surrender one of its top AI leaders to Meta. Ruming Pang, the executive in charge of Apple Intelligence, has left to join Meta’s new Superintelligence Labs. Pang was no ordinary Apple employee — he was overseeing a team...