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Why did Elon Musk not attend Trump's dinner with high-profile tech CEOs? Tesla CEO has this to say
President Trump held a big White House dinner with top tech CEOs to talk about AI and U.S. investments. Leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Bill Gates joined the event. Elon Musk was missing, saying he could not attend. The meeting showed how Silicon Valley is now working more closely with Trump’s administration.
Will humans survive the AI era? Computer scientist warns superintelligence could be the 'last invention we ever make'
Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy, a leading AI safety expert, warned on the Diary of a CEO podcast that artificial intelligence could become the last invention humans ever need to make. Unlike previous tools, AI may automate all jobs and conduct scientific discovery independently. Yampolskiy highlighted existential risks, proposed safeguards, and joined calls to pause high-risk AI experiments, urging society to reconsider humanity’s role in a future dominated by superintelligent AI.
AI researchers lured with high salaries are leaving Meta, quoting Mark Zuckerberg’s own advice on their way out
Meta’s ambitious Superintelligence Labs (MSL), launched by Mark Zuckerberg to rival AI leaders, is already facing turbulence just months in. Despite offering salaries in the hundreds of millions, the lab has seen high-profile exits, including researchers Avi Verma, Ethan Knight, and Rishabh Agarwal, who cited shifting priorities and leadership issues. Many are returning to OpenAI, highlighting that top AI talent values mission and influence over money. The defections cast doubt on Meta’s ability to sustain its AI moonshot.
Meta's AI leaders discuss using Google, OpenAI models in apps: Report
Leaders at Meta's new AI organisation, Meta Superintelligence Labs, have explored integrating Google's Gemini model to deliver conversational, text-based responses for queries submitted to Meta AI, the company's primary chatbot, the report said.
Chaya Nayak quits Meta to join OpenAI’s special initiatives team
Chaya Nayak, Meta's Director of Product Management for Generative AI, has departed after nine years to join OpenAI's Special Initiatives team. She will collaborate with Irina Kofman, focusing on experimental AI opportunities beyond core products. Nayak's expertise in transparency and responsible data use will advance OpenAI's long-term mission.
Reliance's AI push; CG Power chairman Vellayan Subbiah interview
Artificial intelligence took centre stage at Reliance Industries’ 48th AGM, with partnerships and product launches. This and more in today's ETtech Top 5.
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Top AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal quits Meta’s Superintelligence Lab despite million-dollar pay
Rishabh Agarwal has left Meta’s Superintelligence Lab just months after joining on a million-dollar salary. Despite strong pitches and high pay, Agarwal and others have quit, with reports suggesting Meta’s demanding expectations around work-life balance and values may be pushing talent away, despite its aggressive push in AI hiring.
The ET Startup Awards 2025: Nominees for ‘Startup of the Year’ are here
Happy Wednesday! We at ETtech have been hard at work to bring you the 11th edition of The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA).
Meta's planned Louisiana AI data centre to cost $50 billion: Donald Trump
Meta is building a $50 billion AI data centre in Louisiana, its largest yet, to support advanced digital infrastructure. Financed partly by PIMCO and Blue Owl Capital, the project reflects CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s major AI push through Superintelligence Labs, despite recent setbacks and criticism of its Llama 4 model.
Open source AI: Mission aborted?
The open-source LLM mission seems to be losing market share among enterprises but research efforts to democratise open model use continue.
Silicon Valley is in its 'hard tech' era
Silicon Valley has shifted from its Web 2.0 heyday of perks and consumer apps to a more intense AI-driven era. With fewer frills and tougher tech, the focus is now on neural networks, GPUs, and defence startups, as San Francisco reclaims its place as the heart of global innovation.
Meta’s billion-dollar hiring spree: DeepMind boss says money can’t buy the frontier of AI. Sam Altman reacts
Meta is pouring billions into recruiting top artificial intelligence talent, offering pay packages that in some cases reach $200 million. The strategy, personally driven by Mark Zuckerberg, has brought high-profile researchers from OpenAI, Google and Apple into its new Superintelligence Labs. While Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis has called the move “rational,” he insists that the real frontier of AI will be shaped by those motivated by mission, not money. OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls it “mafioso poaching.”
Meta partners with Midjourney to license AI tech for future products
The move signals Meta's push to differentiate its products on visual quality, as it looks to revitalize its artificial intelligence efforts amid heated competition with rivals, including ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Google.
After billion-dollar hirings, Zuckerberg slams brakes on Meta’s AI hiring spree as bubble fears shake Silicon Valley
Meta AI hiring freeze: Meta has paused hiring in its AI division. This decision follows worries about an AI investment bubble. Stock market declines have impacted tech companies like Nvidia. Concerns grew after a report questioned AI's returns. Meta says the pause is for organizational planning. Analysts warn high AI salaries could hurt shareholder value.
$5 billion made overnight — short sellers feast on AI panic sell-off
AI stocks faced a sudden drop, and short sellers made huge profits in just days. Big tech names like Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others saw their shares fall as fear of an AI bubble grew. Experts and reports raised doubts about the real returns from AI, leading to panic in the stock market.
Meta restructures AI group again in pursuit of superintelligence
The new structure is meant to “accelerate” the company’s pursuit of so-called superintelligence, according to an internal memo sent Tuesday by Alexandr Wang, the former Scale AI chief executive officer who recently joined Meta as chief AI officer.
Mark Zuckerberg shakes up Meta's AI efforts, again
On Tuesday, Meta announced internally that it is splitting its AI division -- which is known as Meta Superintelligence Labs -- into four groups, two people with knowledge of the situation said. One group will focus on AI research; one on a potentially powerful AI called "superintelligence"; another on products; and one on infrastructure such as data centers and other AI hardware, they said.
Meta plans fourth restructuring of AI efforts in six months: The Information
Meta plans its fourth AI overhaul in six months, restructuring Superintelligence Labs into four teams, including a new "TBD Lab." Amid rising competition and heavy investment in AI infrastructure, CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to accelerate progress towards artificial general intelligence, despite recent setbacks and soaring operational and staffing costs.
PhDs, elite lab experience, and AI brilliance: Mark Zuckerberg’s secret recruitment list for superintelligence lab revealed
Mark Zuckerberg is aggressively recruiting top AI talent for Meta's new superintelligence lab, targeting researchers from elite institutions and AI hubs like OpenAI and Google DeepMind. This initiative, led by Alexandr Wang, involves significant financial investment, prompting OpenAI to revamp its compensation and retain its staff amidst the heated competition for AI expertise in Silicon Valley.
OpenAI offers millions in bonuses to 1,000 employees amid AI talent war
A quarterly bonus for two years was awarded to researchers and software engineers in the firm's applied engineering, scaling, and safety domains. Altman informed that the rise in compensation was a result of market dynamics, likely driven by the demand for AI talent.
Sam Altman says AI talent market in race to superintelligence ‘most intense’ yet
On the ongoing AI talent war, OpenAI's Sam Altman said only a few individuals globally have the skills to make the algorithmic breakthroughs needed to achieve superintelligence, adding that there are only “medium-sized handful of people” capable of figuring them out.
Sam Altman slams companies for ‘going after shiny names’ amid intense AI talent war. Says ‘thousands can do the same work’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Silicon Valley’s AI hiring frenzy is the most intense of his career, but warns companies are chasing “shiny names” instead of untapped talent. With billion-dollar stakes in computing and infrastructure, Altman argues innovation will come from thousands worldwide, not just a select few — despite fierce poaching and sky-high offers.
No nine-figure deals, just more breathing room, 'startup vibe': Why engineers are leaving Google's DeepMind for Microsoft
Microsoft has hired over two dozen AI experts from Google’s DeepMind, offering not just bigger salaries but a promise of a leaner, more dynamic work culture. Led by Mustafa Suleyman, a DeepMind co-founder, the new Microsoft AI unit is pulling talent by promoting autonomy, smaller teams, and reduced bureaucracy. While Meta still leads on compensation, Microsoft’s startup-style structure is proving just as appealing. This shift comes as competition for top AI minds heats up across Silicon Valley’s biggest tech players.
Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms
Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a startup using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and mimic emotion in audio. Founded by former OpenAI and Google employees, WaveForms launched in December 2024. Its founders, Alexis Conneau and Coralie Lemaitre, will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs as part of Meta’s growing focus on AI.
Mark Zuckerberg was furious after Mira Murati refused his Rs 8,500 cr offer; Here's what he did next
Meta tried to buy Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines, and failed. Then Mark Zuckerberg made an aggressive play for its top talent, including co-founder Andrew Tulloch, with an eye-watering $1.5 billion offer. Tulloch said no. So did everyone else. This is the story of loyalty, culture, and ambition clashing with money and muscle in the escalating AI arms race. From Silicon Valley’s talent wars to the secretive world of frontier AI labs, here’s how power is shifting—and why it’s not all about the highest bid.
Top Meta engineers have joined xAI: CEO Elon Musk
Taking to X, Musk revealed that many former Meta engineers have joined his AI startup, xAI. However, he pointed out that unlike Meta, xAI isn’t offering “insane” pay packages. In response, the Meta founder has dismissed these claims, saying the numbers are “inaccurate”.
Anthropic CEO throws shade at Mark Zuckerberg’s billion-dollar AI talent hunt with dartboard dig: ‘You can’t buy purpose with a paycheck’
Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, has criticised Meta's AI recruitment. He questions Meta's high compensation offers. Amodei says Anthropic prioritizes culture and fair pay. Meta is aggressively poaching AI engineers. This is from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Meta's strategy involves huge financial incentives. Amodei believes purpose-driven work cannot be bought. He focuses on ethical AI development at Anthropic.
A 24-year-old AI researcher turned down Rs 1,090.63 crore offer from Meta, Zuckerberg doubled it up to Rs 21,791,975,000
Meta is attempting to bridge the next frontier of AI tech and research and its turning to the biggest and brightest minds of our day and age to do so. Along comes 24 year old Matt Deitke, who is brilliant in his own right and has built an award-winning multimodal AI system Molmo, and has co-founded a startup which builds autonomous AI agents, Vercept. For Meta acquire this young man's brilliance, all it took was a personal meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, and an initial compensation offer of $125 million which was later doubled to $250 million, including $100 million in the first year year itself.
Can you believe this? Zuckerberg offered $1 billion pay package to an AI researcher - what happened next was shocking
Meta, under the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg, has launched an aggressive push to recruit AI talent, with a particular focus on researchers from Mira Murati’s San Francisco-based startup, Thinking Machines.
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