Category Archives: Business

Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching Spree: ‘Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries’

“What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.

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Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla’s Model Y

In just three minutes Xiaomi took 200,000 pre-orders for only its second ever EV—four times what Cybertruck has sold in its 18-month lifetime. But at $35,000, it’s really gunning for Elon’s family SUV.

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Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

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Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash

After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.

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Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team

After a poaching frenzy that’s brought in talent from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, Zuckerberg announced a team of nearly two dozen researchers in an internal memo.

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Microsoft Says Its New AI System Diagnosed Patients 4 Times More Accurately Than Human Doctors

The tech giant poached several top Google researchers to help build a powerful AI tool that can diagnose patients and potentially cut health care costs.

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OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’

As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they’re ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.

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OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta

Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.

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OpenAI’s Unreleased AGI Paper Could Complicate Microsoft Negotiations

The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.

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Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out

While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse.

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