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Meta offering $100M signing bonuses may be an exaggeration by Altman, but $100M overall compensation packages are plausible given Meta's need to catch up in AI — Exaggeration, conflation, a game of Telephone, directional accuracy, brinksmanship, or all of the above?
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| Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Source: Meta hired four more OpenAI researchers, including key contributors to o1-mini and o3-mini, as Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort — Meta Platforms is hiring four more OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at “The List”, a compilation of the most talented AI engineers and researchers that Mark Zuckerberg has put together in an effort to recruit them to Meta — Only a select few researchers have the skills for the hottest area in tech. Mark Zuckerberg and his rivals want to hire them …
More: The Guardian, The Information, The Decoder, New York Times, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @justinhendrix. X: @mattrosoff, @meghanbobrowsky, and @berber_jin1. LinkedIn: Meghan Bobrowsky. Forums: r/singularity
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
As Reddit turns 20, a look at its AI efforts, including the Reddit Answers chatbot, while it battles unauthorized scraping of user data for AI training — For 20 years, Reddit has pitched itself as “the front page of the internet.” AI threatens to change that.
More: New York Times and The Verge
| Roy / @im_roy_lee: |
[Thread] Cluely unveils a desktop AI assistant that it says can help users cheat on meetings, sales, lectures, interviews, learning new software, and more — introducing @cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread): [video]
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Tesla says a Model Y drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to a buyer's home 30 minutes away, marking its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery — The milestone was achieved a day early. But Tesla's robotaxis still require safety monitors and remote supervisors.
More: Fox Business, Business Insider, CNBC, The Information, Engadget, InsideEVs, TechEBlog, PCMag, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, TESLARATI, Motley Fool, Benzinga, Notebookcheck, Automotive News, Reuters, and Bloomberg
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Forums: r/technews, r/RealTesla, and r/technology
| Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters: |
The DOJ settles its lawsuit challenging HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper; HPE must divest Instant On and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software — The U.S. Department of Justice has settled its lawsuit challenging server maker Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE.N) …
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
A profile of London-based CloudNC, a leading provider of AI-powered CNC software that is helping US manufacturers overcome a shortage of trained operators — There's absolutely no room for error with the precision parts that MSP Manufacturing in Bloomington, Ind., makes for the aviation industry … | Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future — We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway's CEO as well as Hollywood pros. — Last week, I attended a film festival dedicated to shorts made using generative AI.| Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: |
How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit — One year into its copyright litigation, the Center for Investigative Reporting is still one of the only nonprofits to take the AI giant to court.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright — In the past week, big AI companies have — in theory — chalked up two big legal wins. But things are not quite as straightforward as they may seem … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
As top reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue and challenges with building a wide audience pose threats to its long-term success — While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse. — Before June 8, the skilled …
More: AMC All the Time
| Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI: |
Hands-on with seven coding agents tasked with building a website: Claude Code performed best, OpenAI's Codex lacked polish, and Replit failed to build the site — There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology. … In recent weeks, I've written multiple articles … | Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg: |
Atlantic Council: US cyber power is hampered by an inefficient supply chain for zero days, with too few providers and “levels of middlemen” driving up costs — Atlantic Council research says market for zero days is bloated, leaving the US behind rivals such as China. — The Cyber Angle
Bluesky: @patrickhowelloneill.com
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