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Behind Mark Zuckerberg's sweeping recruitment effort for Meta's Superintelligence lab, including hundreds of reach outs, $100M+ offers and counter offers, more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Behind Mark Zuckerberg's sweeping recruitment effort for Meta's Superintelligence lab, including hundreds o...

23 June 2025

Behind Mark Zuckerberg's sweeping recruitment effort for Meta's Superintelligence lab, including hundreds of reach outs, $100M+ offers and counter offers, more (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Behind Mark Zuckerberg's sweeping recruitment effort for Meta's Superintelligence lab, including hundreds of reach outs, $100M+ offers and counter offers, more  —  In a bid to address an AI crisis at his company, the Meta CEO has gotten personally involved in recruiting top talent

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Inside Disney's plan to limit AI companies' use of its IP, which led Disney and Comcast to sue Midjourney; Disney is also in talks with companies like OpenAI (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Inside Disney's plan to limit AI companies' use of its IP, which led Disney and Comcast to sue Midjourney; Disney is also in talks with companies like OpenAI  —  Disney's top lawyer says his lawsuit against Midjourney is just the first step in a plan to limit AI companies' use of the studio's most valuable characters.

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How AI is enabling a "botscaling" era in Silicon Valley, where companies achieve high revenue per employee with minimal headcount (Walter Frick/Bloomberg)

Walter Frick / Bloomberg:
How AI is enabling a “botscaling” era in Silicon Valley, where companies achieve high revenue per employee with minimal headcount  —  Startups used to brag about valuations and venture capital.  Now AI is making revenue per employee the new holy grail.

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Wolfspeed, a NC-based chipmaker for EVs, says it made a deal with creditors to reduce its ~$6.5B debt in a bankruptcy package that nearly wipes out shareholders (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)

Sujeet Indap / Financial Times:
Wolfspeed, a NC-based chipmaker for EVs, says it made a deal with creditors to reduce its ~$6.5B debt in a bankruptcy package that nearly wipes out shareholders  —  Supplier to EV companies cites deal with creditors to reduce near $6.5bn debt by 70 per cent

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A US judge let an age-discrimination claim, focused on an application-screening algorithm, proceed as a collective action against HR software company Workday (Lauren Weber/Wall Street Journal)

Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal:
A US judge let an age-discrimination claim, focused on an application-screening algorithm, proceed as a collective action against HR software company Workday  —  After more than 100 unsuccessful job applications, Derek Mobley sued software firm Workday for discrimination, claiming its algorithm screened him out

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22 June 2025

OpenAI says it has removed all marketing materials announcing its acquisition of Jony Ive's io due to a trademark dispute lawsuit (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
OpenAI says it has removed all marketing materials announcing its acquisition of Jony Ive's io due to a trademark dispute lawsuit  —  Social media users noticed Sunday that a video and website hosted by OpenAI that announced the artificial intelligence company's $6.5 billion acquisition …

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The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill  —  A Republican effort to block US states from enforcing new artificial intelligence regulations will remain in President Donald Trump's massive tax …

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Austin-based PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for about $1.5B (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Austin-based PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for about $1.5B  —  Haveli Investments will acquire Couchbase (BASE.O) for about $1.5 billion, the companies said on Friday, as the private equity firm looks to capitalize …

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Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin (Reuters)

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Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin  —  Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, has signed legislation requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles …

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A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral  —  Apple will need to make the biggest acquisition in its history to put an end to its artificial intelligence debacle.

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